Sub-1 V Current Mode CMOS Integrated Receiver Front-end for GPS System

Author

Cheng, Wang-Chi ; Chan, Cheong-Fat ; Pun, Kong-Pang ; Choy, Chiu-Sing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

fYear

2006

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

198

Abstract

This paper presents a GPS band integrated CMOS receiver front-end, implemented by a standard 0.35 mum 3M2P CMOS technology, working at 0.93 V supply. The receiver consists of a transconductance low noise amplifier (G_m-LNA), a current mode down conversion mixer (Cheng, 2002) and a voltage-controlled oscillator using accumulation-mode MOS varactor (A-MOS VCO). The integrated receiver front-end has measured power conversion gain 6.8 dB, input referred third-order intercept point (IIP₃) 3 dBm, and noise figure 10.65 dB. The measured total power consumption at 0.93 V supply is equal to 27.9 mW

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Global Positioning System; current-mode circuits; low noise amplifiers; mixers (circuits); radio receivers; varactors; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.35 micron; 0.93 V; 1 V; 10.65 dB; 27.9 mW; 3M2P CMOS technology; 6.8 dB; GPS system; accumulation-mode MOS varactor; current mode CMOS integrated receiver front-end; current mode down conversion mixer; global positioning system; transconductance low noise amplifier; voltage-controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Gain measurement; Global Positioning System; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise measurement; Power conversion; Power measurement; Transconductance; Varactors; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. APCCAS 2006. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0387-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342365

Filename

4145364