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

Author

  • Antonio Liscidini
  • Andrea Mazzanti
  • Riccardo Tonietto
  • Luca Vandi
  • Pietro Andreani
  • Rinaldo Castello

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

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

2832-2841

Publication/Series

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volume

41

Issue

12

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0018-9200