A 5.26-GHz CMOS Up-Conversion Mixer for IEEE 802.11a WLAN

Author

Tu, Steve Hung-Lung ; Chen, Sky Chang-Hung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., FuJen Catholic Univ., Taipei

fYear

2008

Firstpage

820

Lastpage

823

Abstract

This paper investigates a current-reuse bleeding double-balanced mixer operating at 5.26 GHz together with the issues of design and implementation. The up-conversion mixer is configured with the structure of Gilbert Cell and takes advantage of current-reuse bleeding. The up-conversion mixer uses an intermediate frequency (IF) input frequency of 10 MHz, a local oscillator (LO) frequency of 5.25 GHz, and an RF output frequency of 5.26 GHz. An experimental test chip is realized to compare with the conventional CMOS up-conversion mixer. From the measured results, the mixer demonstrates 6.5 dB conversion gain, and -9 dBm input IP3 with 15.3 mW power dissipation from a 1.8 V supply.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; microwave mixers; wireless LAN; CMOS up-conversion mixer; Gilbert Cell structure; IEEE 802.11a WLAN; RF output frequency; current-reuse bleeding double-balanced mixer; frequency 10 MHz; frequency 5.25 GHz; frequency 5.26 GHz; gain 6.5 dB; intermediate frequency; local oscillator frequency; power 15.3 mW; voltage 1.8 V; Gain measurement; Hemorrhaging; Local oscillators; Mixers; Power dissipation; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Semiconductor device measurement; Testing; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems for Communications, 2008. ICCSC 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1707-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1708-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSC.2008.179

Filename

4536871