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

Chun Hsing Li; Chien-Nan Kuo

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

Chun Hsing Li^*, Chien-Nan Kuo

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Electronics Engineering

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC 2010
Pages	1035-1038
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 1 Dec 2010
Event	2010 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2010 - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 7 Dec 2010 → 10 Dec 2010

Publication series

Name	Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC

Conference

Conference	2010 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2010
Country	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	7/12/10 → 10/12/10

Keywords

bulk-driven mixer
Low power
low voltage
Volterra series

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