학술논문

Studies on CMOS Down-Converter with Double-Balanced Mixer along with Balun at S-Band
Document Type
Conference
Source
2022 IEEE Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS) Wireless Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS), 2022 IEEE. :1-5 Jun, 2022
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Microwave antennas
Wireless communication
Radio frequency
Low voltage
Baluns
Gain measurement
CMOS technology
Down-converter
Conversion Gain
Gilbert cell mixer
LC-Balun
compression point
port isolation
intercept point
supply voltage
Language
Abstract
A CMOS down-converter with the combination of Gilbert Cell mixer and modified low voltage design technique using LC-balun is demonstrated in this paper. This forms a down-converter duo of mixer and balun. The RF, LO, and IF port frequencies are 3 GHz, 2.4GHz, and 600MHz, respectively. The measurement results of the proposed mixer-balun duo exhibit 13dB of conversion gain, −7.9 dBm of Input 1-dB compression point (P 1dB ), 2.51 dBm of Input 3 rd order intercept point (IIP3), 3.8 dBm of Output 3 rd order intercept point (OIP3) −43dB RF-IF, −42dB LO_IF Isolation and 1.2V supply voltage. This mixer-balun duo was fabricated at 65nm. CMOS technology. It can provide a 4 dB conversion gain even without connecting the LC-balun and 1.2V supply voltage is utilized.