A 5.8 GHz mixer using SiGe HBT process

Author

Lee, Sang-Heung ; Lee, Ja-Yoi ; Lee, Seung-Yun ; Park, Chan Woo ; Kim, Sang Hoon ; Bae, Hyun-Chul ; Kang, Jin-Yeong ; Cho, Kyoung-Ik

Author_Institution

SiGe Devices Team, Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

7-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

403

Abstract

DSRC provides high speed radio link between Road Side Equipment and On-Board Equipment within the narrow communication area. In this paper, a 5.8 GHz down-conversion mixer for DSRC communication system is designed and fabricated using 0.8 μm SiGe HBT process technology and RF/LO matching circuits, RF/LO input balun circuits and IF output balun circuit are all integrated on chip. The measured performance is 7.5 dB conversion gain, -2.5 dBm input IP3, 46 dB LO to RF isolation, 56 dB LO to IF isolation, current consumption of 21 mA for 3.0 V supply voltage and the chip size of fabricated mixer is 1.9 mm × 1.3 mm.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; MMIC frequency convertors; MMIC mixers; automated highways; baluns; bipolar MMIC; microwave links; 5.8 GHz; DSRC; Gilbert cell; HBT process technology; RF/IO matching circuits; SiGe; downconversion mixer; high speed radio link; input balun circuits; intelligent transportation systems; on-board equipment; output balun circuit; road side equipment; Current measurement; Germanium silicon alloys; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Impedance matching; Integrated circuit technology; Isolation technology; Radio frequency; Radio link; Silicon germanium; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2003. 33rd European

Print_ISBN

1-58053-834-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2003.1262306

Filename

1262306