Packaged, Integrated 32 to 40 GHz Millimeter-Wave Up-Converter

Author

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

Author_Institution

M/A-COM Technol. Solutions, North Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2010

fDate

3-6 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A 4 × 4 mm QFN overmoulded packaged up-converter has been developed for the 38 GHz point-to-point radio band. The MMIC contains LO-doubler-buffer amplifier, image-reject balanced mixer and RF amplifier with linear gain control and consumes 1.5 watts DC. The up-converter has 7 dB conversion gain, 15 dB image rejection, 15 dB of gain control, 20 dBm IIP3 and 50 dB LO-to-RF isolation in the mixer. Performance is similar in the 32 GHz band. The up-converter represents the state of the art in performance and cost.

Keywords

MMIC; convertors; mixers (circuits); radiofrequency amplifiers; LO-doubler-buffer amplifier; MMIC; QFN overmoulded packaged up-converter; RF amplifier; frequency 32 GHz to 40 GHz; image-reject balanced mixer; linear gain control; packaged integrated millimeter-wave up-converter; point-to-point radio band; Gain; Impedance matching; Linearity; MMICs; Microwave filters; Mixers; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

ISSN

1550-8781

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7437-0

Electronic_ISBN

1550-8781

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSICS.2010.5619629

Filename

5619629