A double-quadrature down-conversion mixer in 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS process

Author

Yan, Jinna ; Lim, Kok Meng ; Gu, Jiangmin ; Wang, Keping ; Lim, Wei Meng ; Ma, Kaixue ; Yeo, Kiat Seng

Author_Institution

Circuits & Syst. Div., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2011

fDate

17-18 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

246

Lastpage

249

Abstract

This paper presents a low power double-quadrature down-conversion mixer for second stage down-conversion application in the 60 GHz receiver chain. The mixer utilizes double-balanced Gilbert-cell topology, and operates over a wide RF bandwidth of 7 GHz centered at 15 GHz, with a LO bandwidth of 4 GHz centered at 12.5 GHz. With low LO drive power requirement of -8dBm, the mixer realizes a conversion gain of 2 dB with a 1 dB flatness across an IF bandwidth of 2.9 GHz. It also has good spurious rejection of more than 40 dBc. The mixer consumes 7.11 mA from a 1.8 V supply, and is fabricated using Tower Jazz´s 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS process.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; low-power electronics; mixers (circuits); network topology; SiGe; SiGe BiCMOS process; bandwidth 2.9 GHz; current 7.11 mA; double-balanced Gilbert-cell topology; down-conversion application; frequency 60 GHz; gain 2 dB; low power double-quadrature down-conversion mixer; receiver chain; size 0.18 mum; voltage 1.8 V; SiGe; double-quadrature; gilbert-cell; image-reject; low power; mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2011 International

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0709-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0710-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISOCC.2011.6138756

Filename

6138756