A new high linearity LMV based receiver front-end for IEEE 802.15.4 applications

Author

Mirzaie, Hossein ; Shamsi, Hossein ; Sheikhaei, Samad ; Gholami, Saeed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., K.N. Toosi Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes the design and simulation of a new high-gain, high-linearity, and low-power Low-IF (1-3 MHz) LMV cell based receiver front-end for WPAN (IEEE 802.15.4) applications in a 0.18μm CMOS technology with a voltage supply of 1.2 V. Adding triode-region transistor in the RF path of the conventional LMV cell, the linearity of the cell is increased about 9 dBm. Improving the linearity will result in the decrease of the gain of the cell. In order to solve this problem, a positive feedback is utilized at the IF output, which improves both the gain and the linearity of the cell at IF band.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; Zigbee; radio receivers; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; CMOS technology; IEEE 802.15.4; IF band; LMV based receiver front-end; RF path; frequency 1 GHz to 3 GHz; size 0.18 mum; triode-region transistor; voltage 1.2 V; wireless personal area networks; CMOS integrated circuits; Computer architecture; Linearity; Microprocessors; Radio frequency; Receivers; Transistors; LMV; LNA/Mixer/VCO; Positive feedback; ZigBee; gate-driven; linearity; power consumption; receiver front-end;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2011 19th Iranian Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0730-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-964-463-428-4

Type

conf

Filename

5955655