A Low Power Folded RF Front-End with Merged LNA and Mixer for ZigBee/Bluetooth

Author

Hwang, Yong-Seok ; Yoo, Hyung-Joun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Inf. & Commun. Univ., Daejeon

fYear

2007

fDate

9-11 Jan. 2007

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

86

Abstract

A folded RF front-end with merged LNA and mixer is designed in 0.25 mum CMOS process for low power applications. The designed low power RF front-end uses the folded and current reuse techniques. It consumes 13.8 mW from 1.7 V supply voltage, while 5.2 dB NF and 25.7 dB conversion gain are achieved. By using PMOS in the switching stage of the folded mixer, low flicker noise of 7 dB at 10 kHz is also achieved. The proposed RF front-end can be used in direct conversion receiver for a relatively narrow bandwidth system

Keywords

Bluetooth; CMOS integrated circuits; flicker noise; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; mixers (circuits); 1.7 V; 10 kHz; 13.8 mW; 5.2 dB; 7 dB; Bluetooth; CMOS process; PMOS; ZigBee; conversion gain; direct conversion receiver; flicker noise; folded mixer; low power folded RF front-end; merged LNA; narrow bandwidth system; 1f noise; Bluetooth; Circuits and systems; Costs; Energy consumption; Narrowband; Radio frequency; Transceivers; Voltage; ZigBee; Low power; RF front-end; current-reuse; folded technique; low flicker noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0444-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0445-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2007.351737

Filename

4160655