Single-stage low-power quadrature RF receiver front-end: the LMV cell

Summary, in English

This paper presents the first quadrature RF receiver front-end where, in a single stage, low-noise amplifier (LNA), mixer and voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) share the same bias current. The new structure exploits the intrinsic mixing functionality of a classical LC tank oscillator providing a compact and low-power solution compatible with low-voltage technologies. A 0.13-mum CMOS prototype tailored to the GPS application is presented. The experimental results exhibit a noise figure of 4.8 dB, a gain of 36 dB, an IIP3 of -19 dBm with a total power consumption of only 5.4 mW from a voltage supply of 1.2 V

• Författare: Antonio Liscidini; Andrea Mazzanti; Riccardo Tonietto; Luca Vandi; Pietro Andreani; Rinaldo Castello
• Publiceringsår: 2006
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 2832-2841
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
• Volym: 41
• Issue: 12
• Länkar: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4/4014593/04014620.pdf; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2006.884824
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Ämne: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 0018-9200