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Title:
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Analysis and evaluation of using a tuning inductance on the performance of gilbert cell-based CMOS sub-harmonic mixer
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Author:
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Saberkari, Alireza; Shokouhi, Shahriar B.; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Baghersalimi, Gholamreza
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. EPIC - Energy Processing and Integrated Circuits |
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Abstract:
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The effect of using a tuning inductance on the performance of a Gilbert cell-based two level transistor CMOS sub-harmonic mixer is investigated. The tuning inductor used between the RF and LO switching stages causes conversion gain enhancement and noise figure improvement. Additionally, it compensates LO distortion due to the phase mismatch of LO signals in the sub-harmonic mixer. The design procedure is done in 0.18 :m CMOS process at 1.8 V supply voltage and 2.4 GHz frequency and reveals that the mixer has exhibited high performance after a FOM-based comparison, without increase the power consumption of 5 mW. The inductive connection between the RF and LO stages causes 7 dB enhancement of conversion gain and 7.3 and 6 dB improvement of noise figure and LO distortion, respectively while the mixer has achieved up to 8 dB conversion gain, 0.5 dBm IIP3, and 13.8 dB noise figure. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria electrònica::Microelectrònica::Circuits integrats
-Integrated circuits
-Analysis and evaluation
-Cell-based
-CMOS processs
-CMOS sub-harmonic mixer
-Conversion gain
-Design procedure
-GHz frequencies
-Noise figure improvement
-Phase mismatch
-Sub-harmonic mixer
-Supply voltages
-Switching stage
-Circuits integrats |
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Article - Published version
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