A 2.4-GHz low-IF front-end receiver in 0.18-µm CMOS for IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN applications

Author

Bao-Lin, Wei ; Yu-Jie, Dai ; Xiao-Xing, Zhang ; Ying-Jie, Lu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1137

Lastpage

1140

Abstract

A low-IF front-end receiver suitable for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard operate at the 2.4-GHz band which was designed in 0.18-μm CMOS technology is presented. In the receiver, a single-input to differential-output LNA is used to save DC current and chip area, folded mixer architecture is used to improve noise performance. The front-end receiver has 7.6 dB of single sideband noise figure (SSBNF), -11.2 dBm of third-order input intercept point (IIP3), and 25.5 dB of voltage gain. It consumes 4.2 mA of DC current from a 1.8-V power supply.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; low noise amplifiers; personal area networks; radio receivers; radiofrequency integrated circuits; CMOS technology; IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN; current 4.2 mA; differential-output LNA; folded mixer architecture; frequency 2.4 GHz; gain 25.5 dB; low noise amplifiers; low-IF front-end receiver; noise figure 7.6 dB; single sideband noise; single sideband noise figure; size 0.18 μm; voltage 1.8 V; voltage gain; Bit error rate; CMOS technology; Costs; Image converters; Impedance; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Receivers; Transceivers; CMOS radio; IEEE 802.15.4 front-end receiver; folded mixer; low noise amplifier (LNA); wireless personal area net-work (WPAN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ASIC, 2009. ASICON '09. IEEE 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha, Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3868-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3870-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASICON.2009.5351365

Filename

5351365