Simultaneously matched SiGe transistor RF mixer with high dynamic range

Author

Cam, Zehra Gulru ; Palamutcuogullari, O.

Author_Institution

Elektron. ve Haberlesme Muhendisligi Bolumu, Yildiz Teknik Univ., İstanbul, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An active mixer operating at 2.15 GHz which is based on the Gilbert Mixer topology is designed by using the transistors which are realized by using 0.25um SiGe technology. The symetrical driving circuit at the input is realized by using the CB(common base) and CE(common emitter) transistors which operate interactively. The passive capacitive voltage-series feed-forward circuit is applied to CB circuit and an almost perfect broadband matching is obtained at the input. Mixer is simulated with AWR software environment. 5V DC supply voltage is used, O IP3 of 22.4 dBm and the conversion Gain of 3 dB is obtained for the -2.5 dBm of LO power. The noise figure of the circuit is found as 11.75 dB.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; UHF mixers; UHF transistors; driver circuits; feedforward; passive networks; AWR software environment; CB transistor; CE transistor; Gilbert Mixer topology; SiGe; broadband matching; common base; common emitter; frequency 2.15 GHz; gain 3 dB; noise figure 11.75 dB; passive capacitive voltage-series feedforward circuit; size 0.25 mum; symetrical driving circuit; transistor RF active mixer; voltage 5 V; Dynamic range; Impedance matching; Mixers; Radio frequency; Silicon germanium; Topology; Transistors; SiGe; mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2013 21st

Conference_Location

Haspolat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5562-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5561-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIU.2013.6531244

Filename

6531244