• DocumentCode
    1735066
  • Title

    Small-Area CMOS RF Distributed Mixer Using Multi-Port Inductors

  • Author

    Yammouch, Tackya ; Okada, Kenichi ; Masu, Kazuya

  • Author_Institution
    Integrated Res. Inst., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    123
  • Lastpage
    126
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a novel small-area distributed mixer for ultrawide-band (UWB) receivers. The proposed mixer uses five 4-port inductors instead of fifteen 2-port inductors to shrink area of the circuit. The proposed mixer achieves conversion gain of -10 dB, noise figure of 15 dB, return loss of less than -10 dB from 2.3 to 6.0 GHz, IIP3 of 13.6 dBm, and the circuit area of 0.51 mm2
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; UHF mixers; inductors; microwave mixers; radio receivers; ultra wideband communication; -10 dB; 15 dB; 2.3 to 6 GHz; multiport inductors; small-area CMOS RF distributed mixer; ultrawideband receivers; Capacitance; Capacitors; Cutoff frequency; Distributed parameter circuits; Equivalent circuits; Impedance; Inductance; Inductors; Q factor; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, 2007 Topical Meeting on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9765-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-9765-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SMIC.2007.322796
  • Filename
    4117341