Title :
Low-voltage bulk-driven mixer with on-chip balun
Author :
Van Vorst, D. ; Mirabbasi, Shahriar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Abstract :
The design and simulation of a pair of bulk-driven low-voltage down-conversion mixers with on-chip transformer baluns is presented. The addition of a passive balun improves gain and can provide impedance matching for optional off-chip image-reject filters. The mixers operate in the 5.8 GHz ISM band and consume 1 mW while achieving an input-referred 1 dB compression point of 1 dBm with a gain of 3 dB and a noise figure of 27 dB, and a -13 dBm compression point with a gain of 13 dB and a noise figure of 17 dB.
Keywords :
baluns; filters; impedance matching; microwave mixers; bulk-driven low-voltage down-conversion mixers; frequency 5.8 GHz; gain 13 dB; gain 3 dB; impedance matching; noise figure 17 dB; noise figure 27 dB; off-chip image-reject filters; on-chip transformer baluns; power 1 mW; Gain; Image coding; Impedance matching; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Space technology; Tail; Threshold voltage; Transconductance; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2008. ISCAS 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1683-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1684-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541453
