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

Volume

2

fYear

2003

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Conference, 2003. CAS 2003. International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7821-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMICND.2003.1252455

Filename

1252455