A 2.4 GHz double balanced differential input single output low power transmitting mixer In TSMC 180nm CMOS RF process

Author

Patil, Santosh B. ; Kanphade, Rajendra D.

Author_Institution

VLSI & ESD Center, S.S.G.M. Coll. of Eng., Shegaon, India

fYear

2015

fDate

26-27 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1181

Lastpage

1186

Abstract

In this paper, a high gain low-power up-conversion Gilbert cell mixer, designed in 180nm RF CMOS process, is proposed to realize the transmitter front-end working at 2.4 GHz frequency. The proposed mixer can convert a 100 MHz intermediate frequency (IF) signal into a 2.4 GHz RF signal, with a local oscillator power of 5 dBm at 2.3 GHz. A comparison with conventional other up-conversion mixers shows high performance. Simulation results demonstrate that at 2.4 GHz, the circuit provides 28.40 dB of conversion gain and the input-referred third-order intercept point (IIP3) of -17.78 dBm. The circuit consumed 8.660mW power and it is laid out using Cadence Virtuoso layout editor of size 0.229mm×0.205mm.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; integrated circuit layout; low-power electronics; Cadence Virtuoso layout editor; IF signal; IIP3; TSMC CMOS RF process; double balanced differential input single output low power transmitting mixer; frequency 100 MHz; frequency 2.3 GHz; frequency 2.4 GHz; gain 28.40 dB; input-referred third-order intercept point; intermediate frequency signal; low-power up-conversion Gilbert cell mixer; oscillator; power 8.660 mW; size 180 nm; Gain; Linearity; Mixers; RF signals; Radio frequency; Transconductance; Transistors; Conversion gain; Double balanced; Gilbert cell; Layout; Linearity; Low power; Noise figure; S-parameter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2015 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7224-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECS.2015.7124771

Filename

7124771