A 3 to 9-GHz Dual-band Up-Converter for a DS-UWB Transmitter in 0.18-μm CMOS

Author

Arasu, M. Annamalai ; Zheng, Yuanjin ; Yeoh, Wooi Gan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Singapore

fYear

2007

fDate

3-5 June 2007

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

500

Abstract

A dual-band up-converter (DB-UPC) for a dual-band direct sequence UWB transmitter is demonstrated in 0.18-mum CMOS. The DB-UPC translates a base-band UWB pulse to a 3-5 GHz low-band or 7-9 GHz high band. The DB-UPC consists of two mixers followed by a combiner. The high and low band mixers consist of a fully differential mixer core followed by a differential to single-ended converter. The DB-UPC has linear transfer characteristic for up to 0.7Vpp input pulse amplitude. Measured voltage gain and two-tone IIP3 of the DB-UPC are -8 dB, +10 dBm in the low-band and -14 dB, +14 dBm in the high-band respectively.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; frequency multipliers; integrated circuit design; microwave frequency convertors; microwave integrated circuits; microwave mixers; power combiners; radio transmitters; ultra wideband communication; CMOS process; DS-UWB transmitter; combiner circuits; differential mixer core; direct sequence ultra wideband transmitter; dual-band up-converter; frequency 3 GHz to 9 GHz; linear transfer characteristics; mixer circuits; two-tone IIP3; voltage gain; Bandwidth; Driver circuits; Dual band; FCC; Mixers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Radio transmitters; Voltage; DS-UWB; Dual-band; Mixer; Multi-band pulsed; Transmitter; Up-converter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0530-0

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2007.380932

Filename

4266480