A 6–20 GHz Adaptive SiGe Image Reject Mixer for a Self-Healing Receiver

Author

Saha, Prabir K. ; Howard, Duane C. ; Shankar, Subramaniam ; Diestelhorst, Ryan ; England, Troy ; Cressler, John D.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

47

Issue

9

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1998

Lastpage

2006

Abstract

A wideband (6-20 GHz) Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) adaptive image-reject mixer with an intermediate frequency (IF) of 1.8 GHz is presented. The mixer can be “self-healed” to deliver consistent performance by nullifying the effects of process variations, environmental changes, or aging. Various performance metrics of the mixer can also be adapted to different specifications across multiple frequency bands. A conversion gain greater than 15 dB, an image rejection ratio (IRR) exceeding 35 dB, and an output 1-dB compression point greater than 10 dBm, were obtained in measurement. An automated self-healing procedure is developed and shown to be effective for improving the measured performance of the mixer. The mixer was fabricated in a 150 GHz peak f_T, 200 nm SiGe BiCMOS process technology and consumes 215 mA of current operating off a 4 V rail.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; MMIC mixers; UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; bipolar MIMIC; bipolar MMIC; fault tolerant computing; millimetre wave mixers; BiCMOS process technology; IF; IRR; SiGe; adaptive image reject mixer; aging; automated self-healing receiver procedure; compression point; conversion gain; current 215 mA; environmental change; frequency 1.8 GHz; frequency 150 GHz; frequency 6 GHz to 20 GHz; gain 1 dB; image rejection ratio; intermediate frequency; multiple frequency band; size 200 nm; voltage 4 V; Gain; Linearity; Mixers; Radio frequency; Receivers; Silicon germanium; Transistors; Adaptive circuits; SiGe; image reject mixer; self-healing; tunable mixer;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2012.2201284

Filename

6276304