Design optimization of a 1.4 GHz low power bulk-driven mixer

Author

Li, Chun-Hsing ; Kuo, Chien-Nan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1035

Lastpage

1038

Abstract

This work presents a design and analysis of a bulk-driven mixer using variant Volterra series approach. Topologies of the bulk-driven mixer (BDM) with and without a current source have been investigated. The analysis shows that the LO voltage swing has a limit in the BDM with a current source due to turn-on of the bulk-to-source diode. The operational principle of the BDM without a current source is discussed and indicates that it shall be characterized in terms of weakly nonlinear operation. With the insight gained from the nonlinear analysis, the proposed BDM is designed and implemented in 0.18-um CMOS technology. The measurement result shows that the voltage conversion gain, SSB noise figure, and IIP3 are 16 dB, 19.65 dB, and -0.5 dBm, respectively. The power consumption is only 0.25 mW from a supply voltage of 1 V.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF mixers; integrated circuit design; BDM topology; CMOS technology; LO voltage swing; bulk-to-source diode; design optimization; frequency 1.4 GHz; gain 16 dB; low-power bulk-driven mixer; noise figure 19.65 dB; nonlinear analysis; power 0.25 mW; size 0.18 mum; variant Volterra series approach; voltage 1 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Logic gates; Mixers; Power demand; Voltage measurement; Wireless sensor networks; Low power; Volterra series; bulk-driven mixer; low voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2010 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7590-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-902339-22-2

Type

conf

Filename

5728570