Design and modeling of passive mixer-first receivers for millimeter-wave applications

Author

Moroni, Anna ; Manstretta, Danilo

Author_Institution

ST-Microelectron., Cornaredo, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

29-31 May 2013

Firstpage

175

Lastpage

178

Abstract

A broadband power-matched passive mixer integrated in a 65nm CMOS technology suitable for mm-wave mixer-first receivers is analyzed. A “baseband” equivalent LTI circuit representation that can accurately predict mixer behavior in terms of input impedance, down-conversion gain, noise and linearity is presented, enabling accurate design equations. A significant improvement in the accuracy compared with previously reported LTI models is demonstrated.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; electric impedance; integrated circuit design; millimetre wave mixers; millimetre wave receivers; passive networks; CMOS technology; LTI models; baseband equivalent LTI circuit representation; broadband power-matched passive mixer; down-conversion gain; millimeter-wave applications; mixer behavior; mm-wave mixer-first receivers; passive mixer-first receivers design; passive mixer-first receivers modeling; size 65 nm; Baseband; Equivalent circuits; Impedance; Integrated circuit modeling; Mixers; Radio frequency; Receivers; CMOS; millimeter-wave; mixers; passive mixers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IC Design & Technology (ICICDT), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pavia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4740-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4741-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICDT.2013.6563330

Filename

6563330