A current-folded up-conversion mixer and a VCO with center-tapped inductor in a SiGe-HBT technology for 5 GHz wireless LAN applications

Author

Grau, Günter ; Langmann, Ulrich ; Winkler, Wolfgang ; Knoll, Dieter ; Osten, Jörg ; Pressel, Klaus

Author_Institution

Lab. fur Elektron. Bauelemente, Ruhr-Univ., Bochum, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

164

Abstract

This paper describes a 5.8 GHz up-conversion mixer core based on a current-folded architecture and a 5 GHz differential emitter-coupled VCO utilizing a center-tapped inductor and a substrate shield. Both circuits are fabricated in a 0.8 μm 45 GHz f_T SiGe-HBT technology and operate with a supply of -2.3 V to -3.3 V

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; MMIC mixers; MMIC oscillators; bipolar MMIC; heterojunction bipolar transistors; integrated circuit design; semiconductor materials; voltage-controlled oscillators; wireless LAN; -2.3 to -3.3 V; 0.8 micron; 45 GHz; 5 GHz; 5.8 GHz; SHF; SiGe; SiGe HBT technology; center-tapped inductor; current-folded architecture; differential emitter-coupled VCO; substrate shield; up-conversion mixer; wireless LAN applications; Bandwidth; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Impedance; Inductors; Radio frequency; Substrates; Voltage; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1088-5714-0

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5712-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.1999.803550

Filename

803550