A gilbert mixer with passive balun for 18 GHz Application

Author

Her, Man-Long ; Hung, Cheng-Kai ; Huang, Chun-Yuan ; Hsu, Ming-Wei ; Ko, Wen ; Lin, Yu-Chang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Feng-Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

23-27 July 2012

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

95

Abstract

The aim of this paper is presented A Gilbert mixer with passive balun for 18 GHz application. It was used Taiwan Semiconductor provided by TSMC CMOS 0.18 μm process. We proposed mixer consists of Gilbert Cell, balun and the IF buffer amplifier. Finally, at the operation voltage of V_dd = 1.8 V, RF frequency = 18 GHz, LO frequency = 17 GHz, the conversion gain is about 8.6 dB, input P1dB and power consumption are about -9 dBm and 41.4 mW. The chip size including all testing pads is 0.76 × 0.59 mm².

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC mixers; baluns; field effect MMIC; Gilbert cell; Gilbert mixer; IF buffer amplifier; TSMC CMOS process; Taiwan semiconductor; frequency 17 GHz; frequency 18 GHz; passive balun; power 41.4 mW; size 0.18 mum; voltage 1.8 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Impedance matching; Linearity; Mixers; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; CMOS; Gilbert Mixer; Ku-band; Passive Balun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSQRWC), 2012

Conference_Location

New Taipei City

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1867-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSQRWC.2012.6294989

Filename

6294989