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A CMOS even harmonic mixer with current reuse for low power applications

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Ming-Feng Huang,

Shuenn-Yuh Lee,

Chung J. KuoAuthors Info & Claims

ISLPED '04: Proceedings of the 2004 international symposium on Low power electronics and design

Pages 290 - 295

https://doi.org/10.1145/1013235.1013307

Published: 09 August 2004 Publication History

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This paper presents a novel topology for the even harmonic mixer (EHM). The proposed mixer employs current reuse and double frequency circuits in the RF input stage and LO stage, respectively, to improve its linearity and isolation. In addition, the proposed topology has the advantage of the low power consumption. In order to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed mixer, theoretical analyses of conversion gain and linearity have been described in details. The measured results reveal that the proposed mixer possesses single-end conversion gain of 8 dB and third-order input intercept point (IIP3) of --3.8 dBm, respectively, under the supply voltage of 1.8 V and LO power of 4 dBm. The power consumption of the proposed mixer is about 1.4 mW at 900 MHz.

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Alvarado UBistué GAdín IAlvarado UBistué GAdín I(2011)Mixer DesignLow Power RF Circuit Design in Standard CMOS Technology10.1007/978-3-642-22987-9_7(129-177)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22987-9_7
Gil ICairó ISieiro JLópez-Villegas J(2010)Low-power current-reused RF front-end based on optimized transformers topologyIntegration, the VLSI Journal10.1016/j.vlsi.2009.10.00143:2(230-236)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.vlsi.2009.10.001

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ISLPED '04: Proceedings of the 2004 international symposium on Low power electronics and design

August 2004

414 pages

ISBN:1581139292

DOI:10.1145/1013235

General Chairs:
Rajiv Joshi
IBM
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Kiyoung Choi
Seoul National University
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Vivek Tiwari
Intel Corporation
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Kaushik Roy
Purdue University

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Alvarado UBistué GAdín IAlvarado UBistué GAdín I(2011)Mixer DesignLow Power RF Circuit Design in Standard CMOS Technology10.1007/978-3-642-22987-9_7(129-177)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22987-9_7
Gil ICairó ISieiro JLópez-Villegas J(2010)Low-power current-reused RF front-end based on optimized transformers topologyIntegration, the VLSI Journal10.1016/j.vlsi.2009.10.00143:2(230-236)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.vlsi.2009.10.001

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