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A High Linearity and Low Power 3.1–10.6GHz CMOS Up-Conversion Mixer for UWB Applications

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This paper proposed a full band up-mixer implemented in 0.18μm COMS process for UWB wireless systems. The linearity, noise figure and other performance are improved by using current bleeding technique and inserting a LC network on common source nodes of the switches stage. The inductance peaking technique is adopted to flatten conversion gain over the 14 sub-bands of UWB system. The up-converting mixer converts an input of 264MHz intermediate frequency to an output of 3.1–10.6GHz radio frequency signal. From the post simulation results, the proposed up-mixer achieves conversion gain of 10±1dB and the IIP3 of 7.19dBm and power consumption of 2.4mW at 1.2V power supply.

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    Sichun Du, Wenbin Huang, Chunhua Wang, Guangxiang Zhang & Jianguo Zhang

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Du, S., Huang, W., Wang, C. et al. A High Linearity and Low Power 3.1–10.6GHz CMOS Up-Conversion Mixer for UWB Applications. Wireless Pers Commun 70, 1623–1632 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0769-1

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