A direct downconversion receiver implemented in 0.13 μm 1P8M process is presented. The circuit is formed by a single-end LNA, an active balun for conversion into balanced mode, a quadrature double-balanced passive switch mixer and a quadrature voltage-controlled oscillator. The receiver operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band and complies with IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) specifications. The circuit exhibit...

In this work, design and simulation results of two RF front-ends to be used in direct conversion receiver are presented. The first one uses dual CS differential LNA with folded mixer. The second one uses single-ended LNA with double balanced mixer. Single-ended and fully differential LNA’s provide gains of 16.3 dB and 28.75 dB at 2.4GHz, respectively. Noise Figure of these two LNA’s are 3.34 dB...

Smart use of mixers is a relevant issue in radio engineering and in instrumentation design, and of paramount importance in phase noise metrology. However simple the mixer seems, every time I try to explain to a colleague what it does, something goes wrong. One difficulty is that actual mixers operate in a wide range of power (150 dB or more) and frequency (up to 3 decades). Another difficulty i...

This paper presents a low voltage wideband downconversion mixer using current-mode approach for multi-standard receivers. The proposed mixer uses a current mirror amplifier with an embedded passive switching core to achieve mixing function, which can combine the advantages of active and passive mixers simultaneously. The mixer is implemented using a 0.18μm CMOS technology and covers frequency b...

This paper describes a 2 GHz CMOS active balanced downconversion I/Q mixer in a TSMC0.18m process for a WCDMA receiver. The mixer achieves a conversion gain of 16 dB and a double side band (DSB) NF of 13.8 dB. The mixer's IIP3 is 12.12 dBm. It consumes approximately 5 mA of current from a 1.8-V power supply. The 12.12 dBm IIP3 fulfils the UMTS requirements for a mixer design.

Intermodulation distortion (IMD) suppression is a critical issue in modern military and commercial RF/microwave systems. Pressed by the demands imposed by distortion-sensitive digital modulation formats, modern systems routinely specify linearity requirements that are impossible to attain using conventional approaches. To meet these new challenges, Marki Microwave has introduced the Two-Tone-Te...

A compact double-balanced monolithic star mixer for Kaband applications using 0.25μm GaAs pHEMT process is presented. With multi-coupled lines technology, the proposed dual 180◦ hybrid is produced and applied to a star mixer successfully. The proposed hybrid adopts the power divider and two types of multi-coupled lines to improve the return loss and isolation at the balance outputs of a traditi...

An experimental study of a balanced mixer based on 2A116A-1 diodes was carried out.Conversion losses were measured in the input frequency range 2450 ± 45 MHz during downconversion to an intermediate 2125 MHz. Conversion loss does not exceed 20 dB anarrow band 2440±10 The amplitude characteristic taken, from which itcan be seen that it is linear for signals up 0 dBm (1 mW). dependence conversion...

Mixer is one of the significant components of the radio frequency transceiver that translate baseband signal into RF and vice versa. In this paper, 2.4 GHz double balanced Gilbert Cell Mixer topology was simulated to study its important properties such as Conversion Gain, Linearity, Noise Figure and Port Isolation. Further, a band pass filter is added in to the design at IF port so as to reject...

The double balanced mixer scheme in-phase signal input and double-quadrature Local Oscillator is suggested for application on IQ direct conversion receivers. LO leakage influence on DC component and BER of the digital signal is shown. A model of the system is designed which is illustrating the improvement of the receiver sensitivity in case of using the suggested scheme.