This project presents a direct-conversion 3G front end in 0.13um digital CMOS for use with the 2.1 GHz WCDMA frequency band. These receivers, widely used in 3G mobile telephony, require low power consumption and cost effective integration with other systems while maintaining high linearity and sensitivity. This project includes the design of a differential LNA, a double-balanced mixer and an on...

This paper presents a noise reduction technique using common-mode feedback in active CMOS mixers. The proposed decreases the noise, thus reducing common-to-differential conversion arising from mismatch and process variations. In addition, reduces sensitivity to process, voltage, temperature (PVT) variations due negative feedback. A theory is adopted analyze low-noise performance of technique. t...

CMOS Scaling technologies are the main caused for great impact on Analog design. The most severe affect is the reduction in the voltage supply. A double balanced down conversion oscillator mixer using 90 nm CMOS technology is proposed in this work. This oscillator mixer consists of an individual mixer stacked on a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The proposed stacked structure allows entire...

This mixer is based on a passive FET resistive frequency converter cell described by first described in the literature by Steven Maas [ ] and explored by Wes Hayward and others [ ]. One difficulty with a DFET passive mixer is obtaining negative gate bias. This has been achieved using gate conduction as in the TriQuint 5M31 [Campbell, Criss], a LO frequency driven negative voltage converter as i...

The explosive growth of today's wireless communication market has brought an in­ creasing demand for high performance radio-frequency (RF) circuits in low-cost tech­ nologies. Because of advancements in RF CMOS circuits, devices, and passive elements in the last decade, it has become possible to develop a RF system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates RF, analog and digital circuits completely. Direct...

This thesis presents a noise-canceling LNA based on a complementary common-gate commonsource combination. It provides active balun functionality with a single-ended input that is power matched to the antenna and a differential current output driving a passive mixer. By allowing class AB operation for both outputs, the LNA achieves a high compression point and its outputs remain balanced under i...

This paper describes how to response of oscilloscopes, especially at low fre MHz to 1 GHz. The method uses the phas standard mixer calibrated by three-mixer reference phase. We describe basic principles obtained using a balanced mixer and a real-tim GHz BW).