A CMOS Up-Conversion Mixer with Wide IF Bandwidth for 60-GHz Applications

Author

Chen, Min-Chiao ; Chen, Huan-Sheng ; Yan, Tzu-Chao ; Kuo, Chien-Nan

Author_Institution

Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu

fYear

2009

fDate

19-21 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a direct up-conversion mixer with wide intermediate frequency (IF) bandwidth is designed and fabricated for 60-GHz applications. The up-converted differential signal is transformed to single-ended signal through an on-chip balun. In addition, an injection-locked frequency tripler is integrated for local oscillator signal generation. The measured results shows the maximum conversion gain of -5.6 dB, the input-referred 1-dB compression point (IP1dB) of -14 dBm, the third-order intercept point (IIP3) of -4 dBm, and 3-dB IF bandwidth of 3.5 GHz. The proposed up-conversion mixer is fabricated using 0.13-mum standard CMOS technology, and it draws only 2.25 mA from 1.2-V supply.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; baluns; frequency multipliers; millimetre wave mixers; signal generators; CMOS; direct up-conversion mixer; frequency 60 GHz; injection-locked frequency tripler; local oscillator signal generation; on-chip balun; wide intermediate frequency bandwidth; Bandwidth; CMOS technology; Frequency; HDTV; Impedance matching; Local oscillators; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave technology; Mixers; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, 2009. SiRF '09. IEEE Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3940-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2831-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMIC.2009.4770527

Filename

4770527