High performance CMOS receiver for local positioning systems

Author

Krcmar, Marko ; Subramanian, Viswanathan ; Boeck, Georg

Author_Institution

Microwave Eng. Lab., Berlin Inst. of Technol., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

7-9 June 2009

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

134

Abstract

A fully integrated CMOS receiver consisting of an LNA and a mixer has been designed and fabricated in IBM BiCMOS 7WL 180 nm technology. An on-chip balun loading the second stage of the LNA was implemented as well for single-to-differential conversion. The receiver was developed for high performance wireless local positioning systems and excellent experimental results were demonstrated: a conversion gain (CG) of 28 dB, a low noise figure (NF) value of 3.3 dB and an input third order intercept point (IIP3) of - 11.5 dBm while consuming only 50 mW. The low noise, high gain and very high linearity performance of the proposed receiver topology makes it to be an optimum choice for the targeted local positioning application based on frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field effect MMIC; radio receivers; radionavigation; IBM BiCMOS 7WL technology; LNA; conversion gain; frequency modulated continuous wave radar; gain 28 dB; high performance CMOS receiver; mixer; noise figure 3.3 dB; on-chip balun; power 50 mW; single-to-differential conversion; size 180 nm; third order intercept point; wireless local positioning systems; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Character generation; Chirp modulation; Impedance matching; Linearity; Noise figure; Noise measurement; Performance gain; Topology; CMOS; LNA; high performance; low power; mixer; wireless local positioning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2009. RFIC 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3377-3

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2009.5135506

Filename

5135506