Title :
A gilbert mixer with passive balun for 18 GHz Application
Author :
Her, Man-Long ; Hung, Cheng-Kai ; Huang, Chun-Yuan ; Hsu, Ming-Wei ; Ko, Wen ; Lin, Yu-Chang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. Eng., Feng-Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
Abstract :
The aim of this paper is presented A Gilbert mixer with passive balun for 18 GHz application. It was used Taiwan Semiconductor provided by TSMC CMOS 0.18 μm process. We proposed mixer consists of Gilbert Cell, balun and the IF buffer amplifier. Finally, at the operation voltage of Vdd = 1.8 V, RF frequency = 18 GHz, LO frequency = 17 GHz, the conversion gain is about 8.6 dB, input P1dB and power consumption are about -9 dBm and 41.4 mW. The chip size including all testing pads is 0.76 × 0.59 mm2.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC mixers; baluns; field effect MMIC; Gilbert cell; Gilbert mixer; IF buffer amplifier; TSMC CMOS process; Taiwan semiconductor; frequency 17 GHz; frequency 18 GHz; passive balun; power 41.4 mW; size 0.18 mum; voltage 1.8 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Impedance matching; Linearity; Mixers; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; CMOS; Gilbert Mixer; Ku-band; Passive Balun;
Conference_Titel :
Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSQRWC), 2012
Conference_Location :
New Taipei City
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1867-9
DOI :
10.1109/CSQRWC.2012.6294989
