An integrated 2.4 GHz CMOS RF front-end

Author

Long, Jie ; Weber, Robert J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

6-13 March 2004

Firstpage

2378

Abstract

An integrated low-power, low-noise radio-frequency (RF) receiver front-end is reported in this paper. It includes a single-ended low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a passive switching direct downconversion mixer. An on-chip interstage spiral inductor and an additional parallel capacitor are used to achieve a better noise performance. The LNA has a simulated noise figure of 0.17 dB and power gain of 12.9 dB. With a -30 dBm RF input, the mixer has a simulated noise figure of 7.8 dB, conversion gain of -2.2 dB, 1-dB compression point of -8 dBm, and input third-order intercept point (IIP3) of 14.4 dBm. This front-end is intended for 2.4 GHz 802.1 Ib applications.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF amplifiers; UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; integrated circuit modelling; integrated circuit noise; low-power electronics; radio receivers; -2.2 dB; 0.17 dB; 12.9 dB; 2.4 GHz; 7.8 dB; CMOS RF front-end; LNA; integrated low-power amplifier; low noise amplifier; low noise radio-frequency receiver; noise performance; on-chip interstage spiral inductor; parallel capacitor; passive switching direct downconversion mixer; power gain; third order intercept point; Circuit noise; Communication switching; Filters; Inductors; Low-noise amplifiers; Mixers; Noise figure; Performance gain; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8155-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2004.1368032

Filename

1368032