A 0.4 V Microwatt Power Consumption Current-Reused Up-Conversion Mixer

Author

Hwann-Kaeo Chiou ; Hung-Ting Chou

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Jhongli, Taiwan

Volume

23

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan. 2013

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

42

Abstract

This letter proposes a novel up-conversion mixer with pseudo-differential and current-reused topology in 90 nm CMOS technology. The proposed source-pumped up-conversion mixer can operate at near weak inversion under a power consumption of 149 μW from a 0.4 V supply voltage while maintains acceptable circuit performance at millimeter-wave (MMW) frequencies. Measurement results show that the up-conversion mixer exhibits a -0.62 dB conversion gain (CG) and a -4 dBm OIP3. An achieved figure-of-merit (FoM) is 1.46.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; millimetre wave frequency convertors; millimetre wave mixers; power consumption; CMOS technology; FoM; MMW frequency; circuit performance; conversion gain; current-reused topology; current-reused up-conversion mixer; figure-of-merit; microwatt power consumption; millimeter-wave frequency; power 149 muW; pseudo-differential topology; size 90 nm; source-pumped up-conversion mixer; supply voltage; voltage 0.4 V; weak inversion; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Frequency measurement; Mixers; Power demand; Topology; Transmitters; CMOS; V-band; current-reused topology; low voltage; mixer; transmitter; ultra-low power;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2012.2234089

Filename

6400263