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SE873 Family Product User Guide
RF Signals
1VV0301216
Rev.4
Page 46 of 69
2018-08-24
The most common source of interference is digital noise, often created by the fast rise and fall
times and high clock speeds of modern digital circuitry. For example, a popular netbook computer
uses an Atom processor clocked at 1.6 GHz. This is only 25 MHz away from the GNSS signal,
and depending upon temperature of the SAW filter, can be within its passband. Because of the
nature of the address and data lines, this would be broadband digital noise at a relatively high
level.
Such devices are required to adhere to a regulatory standard for emissions such as FCC Part 15
Subpart J Class B or CISPR 22. However, these regulatory emission levels are far higher than
the GNSS signal.
Shielding
Shielding the RF circuitry generally is ineffective because the interference is received by the
GNSS antenna itself, the most sensitive portion of the RF path. The antenna cannot be shielded
because it could not then receive the GNSS signals.
There are two solutions, one is to move the antenna away from the source of interference, and
the other is to shield the digital interference source to prevent it from getting to the antenna.
Powering an External LNA
An external LNA requires a source of power. Many active antennas accept a 3 V or
5 V DC voltage that is impressed upon the RF signal line.
Two approaches can be used:
1. Use an inductor to tie directly to the RF trace. This inductor should be at self-resonant at L1
(1.57542 GHz) and should have good Q for low loss. The higher the inductor Q, the lower
the loss will be. The side of the inductor connecting to the antenna supply voltage should be
bypassed to ground with a good quality RF capacitor, again with self-resonance at the L1
frequency.
2. Use a quarter wave stub in place of the inductor. The length of the stub is designed to be
exactly ¼ wavelength at L1, which has the effect of making an RF short at one end of the
stub to appear as an RF open at the other end. The RF short is created by a high quality RF
capacitor operating at self-resonance.
The choice between the two would be determined by:
•
RF path loss introduced by either the inductor or quarter wave stub.
•
Cost of the inductor.
•
Space availability for the quarter wave stub.
Simulations done by Telit show the following losses:
Table 9-1 Inductor Loss
Since this additional loss occurs after the LNA, it is generally not significant unless the circuit is
being designed to work with both active and passive antennas.
Inductor
Additional signal loss
(dB)
Murata LQG15HS27NJ02
0.65
Quarter wave stub on FR4
0.59
Coilcraft B09TJLC (used in ref. design)
0.37
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