• DocumentCode
    1492154
  • Title

    Monolithic RF active mixer design

  • Author

    Fong, Keng Leong ; Meyer, Robert G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    231
  • Lastpage
    239
  • Abstract
    An overview of monolithic radio-frequency (RF) active mixer design is presented. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the performance parameters that are relevant to the design of downconversion mixers, and how they affect the system performance. The second part presents three common kinds of mixer topologies, namely, unbalanced, single-balanced, and double-balanced designs. This paper concentrates on active mixers only, The advantages and disadvantages, as well as the design and optimization techniques for the three kinds of mixers, are discussed
  • Keywords
    UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; circuit optimisation; integrated circuit design; circuit optimization; double-balanced design; downconversion mixer; monolithic RF active mixer design; single-balanced design; topology; unbalanced design; Circuit topology; Design optimization; Filters; Radio frequency; Receivers; Semiconductor device noise; Silicon; System performance; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1057-7130
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/82.754857
  • Filename
    754857