3.5 GHz to 10.0 GHz Mixers of High Gain and Good Isolations

Author

Yang, Hsin-Chia ; Chang, Ming-Der ; Wang, Mu-Chun ; Chi, Sungching ; Wang, Chuei-Tang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Ming Hsin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Signals in the communication system are carried by radio frequency EM waves whose frequencies are provided by Local Oscillators through the mixing function of mixers. They are received and unloaded again at where mixers are. Mixers with good isolation and linearity are highly appreciated. In this paper, mixers of high gain ranged from 3.5 GHz to 10 GHz are to be presented. The circuits are designed by the use of TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS model implanted in Agilent ADS. Based on Gilbert Cell Mixer, circuits with Vdd=1.38 volt are to be extended using extra passive devices to optimize the functioning. One is thus able to develop mixers with comparatively high gain of about 10 dB, improved isolations, and lower noise figures.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC mixers; MMIC oscillators; field effect MMIC; Agilent ADS; Gilbert cell mixer; TSMC CMOS model; communication system; frequency 3.5 GHz to 10.0 GHz; local oscillators; noise figures; passive devices; size 0.18 mum; voltage 1.38 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Linearity; Mixers; Noise figure; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040257

Filename

6040257