Q band up-converter

Author

Convert, Emmanuelle R O ; Mahon, Simon J. ; Harvey, James T. ; Hwang, MacCrae G McCulloch Steve ; Mould, Rodney G. ; Fattorini, Anthony P. ; Clement, Ryan M. ; Young, Alan C.

Author_Institution

Sydney Design Centre, Macom Technol. Solutions, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

7-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A packaged up-converter has been developed for the ETSI 42 GHz point-to-point radio band. The MMIC contains an LO-doubler-buffer amplifier, an image-reject balanced mixer and an RF variable gain amplifier. The up-converter has 10 dB conversion gain, 15 dB image rejection, 15 dB of gain control, 15 dBm IIP3 and 50 dB LO-to-RF isolation in the mixer. The up-converter consumes less than 1 watt DC represents the state of the art in performance, integration and cost.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MMIC amplifiers; gallium arsenide; millimetre wave mixers; power convertors; ETSI point-to-point radio band; GaAs; LO-doubler-buffer amplifier; MMIC; Q band up-converter; RF variable gain amplifier; frequency 42 GHz; gain 10 dB; gain 15 dB; gain 50 dB; gain control; image-reject balanced mixer; packaged up-converter; Gain; Gain control; Linearity; MMICs; Microwave filters; Mixers; Radio frequency; Intermodulation distortion; MMICs; Millimetre wave transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1692-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMCAS.2011.6105787

Filename

6105787