A 60GHz, linear, direct down-conversion mixer with mm-Wave tunability in 32nm CMOS SOI

Author

Sanduleanu, Mihai A. T. ; Valdes-Garcia, A. ; Liu, Yanbing ; Parker, Brendon ; Shlafman, Shlomo ; Sheinman, B. ; Elad, Danny ; Reynolds, S. ; Friedman, Daniel

Author_Institution

IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The gain/linearity trade-off is exploited to achieve the best linearity performance of a mm-Wave down-conversion system. The achieved linearity (IIP3) for the whole down-conversion chain is better than 11.06dBm for 5.8dB gain at 60GHz. Gain can be adjusted from -15dB to 11dB in 1dB steps depending on the signal level. By adjusting phase matching at RF input and the common-mode impedance of the mixer with a variable transmission line, the input phase imbalance can be corrected and the second-order distortion (HD2) can be reduced. The LO/RF isolation is 43dB and the LO/IF isolation is better than 82dB. The down-converter occupies 1.38mm² in 32nm CMOS SOI and consumes 19.2mW from 1V supply. The power consumption of the mixer itself is 4mW @ 1V supply.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; mixers (circuits); silicon-on-insulator; CMOS SOI; LO/IF isolation; LO/RF isolation; RF input; best linearity performance; common mode impedance; direct down conversion mixer; down conversion chain; down converter; frequency 60 GHz; gain -15 dB; gain 11 dB; gain 5.8 dB; input phase imbalance; mm-wave down conversion system; mm-wave tunability; phase matching; power 19.2 mW; power 4 mW; power consumption; second order distortion; signal level; size 32 nm; variable transmission line; voltage 1 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Impedance; Linearity; Mixers; Power transmission lines; Radio frequency; Transmission line measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2013.6658525

Filename

6658525