A new mixer linearization method and optimization of integrated inductor for single balance mixer LO buffer

Author

Kim, Tae Wook ; Kim, Bonkee ; Lee, Kwyro

Author_Institution

Dept. of EECS, KAIST, Daejon, South Korea

fYear

2004

fDate

6-8 June 2004

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

46

Abstract

A new mixer linearization method is proposed, along with a method for optimizing an integrated inductor for a single balance mixer LO buffer with respect to power consumption and silicon area. With the proposed linearization technique and inductor optimization method, we can obtain a state-of-the-art low power 890 MHz cellular CDMA mixer compared with other published and commercially available products. The proposed mixer is fabricated in a 0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS process and measurement results show 12 dBm IIP3 (third order input intercept point) and 10.2 dB conversion gain, and 7.5 dB SSB NF (single-sideband noise figure) with 10.5 mA current consumption at 2.7 V supply voltage.

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; circuit optimisation; code division multiple access; inductors; integrated circuit design; linearisation techniques; mobile handsets; nonlinear network synthesis; 0.35 micron; 10.2 dB; 10.5 mA; 2.7 V; 7.5 dB; 890 MHz; BiCMOS process; IIP3; SiGe; cellular CDMA; conversion gain; integrated inductor optimization; mixer linearization method; mobile phone; power consumption; silicon area; single balance mixer LO buffer; single-sideband noise figure; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Current measurement; Energy consumption; Germanium silicon alloys; Inductors; Linearization techniques; Multiaccess communication; Noise measurement; Optimization methods; Silicon germanium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2004. Digest of Papers. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8333-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2004.1320520

Filename

1320520