Low-voltage low-power combined LNA-single gate mixer for 5GHz wireless systems

Author

Abdelghany, M.A. ; Pokharel, R.K. ; Kanaya, H. ; Yoshida, K.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a low-voltage low-power low noise amplifier (LNA) merged with a fully differential double-balanced single-gate mixer for 5GHz wireless systems. The LNA and mixer had been designed to operate in sub-threshold region for low-power dissipation. The proposed design has been fabricated using TSMC 0.18μm 1P6M CMOS process. At 1mW power consumption from 1V supply voltage, the proposed LNA-mixer design achieves a conversion gain of 27dB and a single side band noise figure (SSB-NF) of 19dB. Measured IIP3 is -3dBm with LO input power of -5dBm.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; microwave amplifiers; microwave integrated circuits; microwave mixers; radiocommunication; TSMC 1P6M CMOS process; frequency 5 GHz; fully differential double-balanced single-gate mixer; gain 27 dB; low noise amplifier; low-power dissipation; low-voltage low-power combined LNA-single gate mixer; noise figure 19 dB; power 1 mW; size 0.18 mum; voltage 1 V; wireless systems; CMOS integrated circuits; Frequency measurement; MOSFETs; Mixers; Radio frequency; Transconductance; CMOS single-gate mixer; Sub-threshold LNA; double-balanced mixer; down-conversion; low-power circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8293-1

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2011.5940698

Filename

5940698