2.4 GHz RF down-conversion mixers in standard CMOS technology

Author

Siddiqi, Arif A. ; Kwasniewski, Tad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

23-26 May 2004

Abstract

In this paper, we have investigated several mixer structures including single-ended, single-balanced and double-balanced RF down-conversion mixers in 0.25 μm standard CMOS technology. The comparison of designed mixers with the recent literature shows significant improvement in some of the major performance parameters. The final differential double-balanced current-switching mixer shows a conversion gain of 6.1 dB, simulated noise figure of 8.3 dB and input 1-dB compression point of -8.3 dBm, consuming 5.6 mW at 2.4 GHz input RF and 250 MHz output IF frequency.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit noise; 0.25 micron; 1 dB; 2.4 GHz; 250 MHz; 5.6 mW; 6.1 dB; 8.3 dB; compression point; conversion gain; differential double-balanced current-switching mixer; double-balanced RF down-conversion mixers; noise figure; output IF frequency; single-balanced RF down-conversion mixers; single-ended RF down-conversion mixers; standard CMOS technology; CMOS technology; Equations; Filtering; Mixers; RF signals; Radio frequency; Resistors; Tail; Transistors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2004. ISCAS '04. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8251-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2004.1329005

Filename

1329005