A high linearity CMOS up-conversion mixer for UHF RFID reader application

Author

Jianhang Fan ; Chunqi Shi ; Runxi Zhang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron. Circuit & Syst., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2014

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A high-linearity double-quadrature direct up-conversion mixer implemented by IBM 0.18μm CMOS process is presented. The mixer is designed based on Gilbert cell with degeneration resistors which can improve its linearity performance. Simulation shows that the circuit achieves 8.5dBm output 1dB compression point at 50Ω, a -11.14dB conversion loss, an output noise of -150 dBc/Hz @ 3.6MHz offset and a -35dBc image rejection while drawing 30mA current from 3.3V power supply.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit noise; mixers (circuits); radiofrequency identification; Gilbert cell; IBM; UHF RFID reader; conversion loss; current 30 mA; degeneration resistors; frequency 3.6 MHz; high linearity CMOS up-conversion mixer; high-linearity double-quadrature direct up-conversion mixer; image rejection; resistance 50 ohm; size 0.18 mum; voltage 3.3 V; Linearity; Mixers; Noise; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Radiofrequency identification; High linearity; Image rejection; UHF RFID reader; Up conversion mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), 2014 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3296-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2014.7021601

Filename

7021601