Title :
2.4 GHz BiCMOS front-end receiver design driven by gain, linearity and noise trade-offs
Author :
Spiridon, S. ; Mazilu, M.C. ; Eynde, F. Op´t ; Dan, C. ; Bodea, M.
Author_Institution :
Politehnic Inst. of Bucharest, Romania
fDate :
28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2003
Abstract :
This paper evaluates the design trade-offs for a high frequency RF front-end. The main three factors - gain, linearity, noise - influence is analyzed, in order to get an optimum performance for the receiver. The analysis is focused on the weight of the main blocks (the low noise amplifier - LNA and the mixer) parameters oil the RF frontend operation. These main parameters are the down conversion gain, input referred third order interception point (iIP3) and noise figure (NF). The high performance RF process IBM´s BiCMOS-6HP Si-Ge 0.25 μm was used to design the circuit.
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit measurement; integrated circuit noise; receivers; 0.25 micron; 2.4 GHz; 2.4 GHz BiCMOS front-end receiver design; Si-Ge; down conversion gain; gain; input referred third order interception point; linearity; low noise amplifier; mixer; noise figure; noise trade-offs; optimum performance; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit noise; Linearity; Low-noise amplifiers; Mixers; Operational amplifiers; Performance analysis; Performance gain; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Conference, 2003. CAS 2003. International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7821-0
DOI :
10.1109/SMICND.2003.1252455
