A 5.8 GHz MMIC Down-Conversion Mixer for DSRC Receiver using SiGe BiCMOS Process

Author

Lee, Sang-Heung ; Lee, Ja-Yol ; Kim, Sang-Hoon ; Bae, Hyun-Cheol ; Lee, Seung-Yun ; Kang, Jin-Yeong ; Kim, Bo Woo

Author_Institution

SiGe Device Team, Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon

fYear

2005

fDate

5-5 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

586

Lastpage

589

Abstract

DSRC (dedicated short range communication) 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 MMIC down-conversion mixer for DSRC receiver is designed and fabricated using SiGe BiCMOS process technology. RF/LO matching circuits, active-based RF/LO input balun circuits, and active-based IF output balun circuit are all integrated on chip with mixer core circuit. The measured results of the fabricated mixer show conversion gain of 5.5 dB, LO to RF isolation of 44 dB, and LO to IF isolation of 40 dB, IIP3 of 1.8 dBm. The chip size of the fabricated mixer is 1.9 mm times 1.2 mm

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; MMIC mixers; active networks; baluns; radio links; radio receivers; semiconductor materials; 5.5 dB; 5.8 GHz; DSRC receiver; MMIC down-conversion mixer; RF-LO matching circuits; SiGe; SiGe BiCMOS process; active-based IF output balun circuit; active-based RF-LO input balun circuits; dedicated short range communication; radio link; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Germanium silicon alloys; Impedance matching; Integrated circuit technology; MMICs; Radio frequency; Radio link; Receivers; Roads; Silicon germanium; Balun; BiCMOS; Mixer; SiGe;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9132-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.2005.1554129

Filename

1554129