An integrated 17 GHz front-end for ISM/WLAN applications in 0.13 μm CMOS

Author

Kienmayer, C. ; Thuringer, R. ; Tiebout, M. ; Simburger, W. ; Scholtz, A.L.

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Vienna, Austria

fYear

2004

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

15

Abstract

This paper presents an integrated front-end for ISM/WLAN applications at 17.3 GHz in 0.13 μm standard CMOS. The front-end chip includes an inductive source-degenerated low noise amplifier (LNA), a transformer-based Gilbert-mixer, an intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier and a buffer for the local oscillator (LO) input. The integrated receiver front-end achieves a gain of 34.7 dB, a SSB noise figure of 6.6 dB, an input. IP3 of -34.4 dBm and an input 1dB compression point of -39 dBm and consumes only 70 mW at a power supply voltage of 1.5 V.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; power consumption; radiofrequency amplifiers; wireless LAN; 0.13 μm CMOS; 0.13 micron; 1.5 V; 17 GHz; 34.7 dB; 70 mW; Gilbert-mixer; ISM/WLAN applications; front-end chip; inductive source-degenerated low noise amplifier; integrated 17 GHz front-end; integrated receiver front-end; intermediate frequency amplifier; local oscillator input; CMOS technology; Circuits; Dynamic range; Energy consumption; Frequency conversion; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise figure; Paper technology; Radio frequency; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Circuits, 2004. Digest of Technical Papers. 2004 Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8287-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSIC.2004.1346485

Filename

1346485