Small-area CMOS RF distributed mixer using multi-port inductors

This paper presents a novel small-area distributed mixer for ultrawide-band (UWB) receivers. The proposed mixer uses five 4-port inductors instead of fifteen 2-port inductors to shrink area of the circuit. The proposed mixer achieves conversion gain of -10 dB, noise figure of 15 dB, return loss of less than -10 dB from 2.3 to 6.0 GHz, IIP3 of 13.6 dBm, and the circuit area of 0.51 mm2.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ASPDAC
• Authors: Susumu Sadoshima, Satoshi Fukuda, Tackya Yammouch, Hiroyuki Ito, Kenichi Okada, Kazuya Masu
• Keywords: -10 DB, ASPDAC 2008, Hardware, Mixer Achieves Conversion, Small-area Distributed Mixer