A low voltage low power up-conversion mixer for WSN application

2014 
This paper presents an up-conversion mixer for 2.4-2.4835 GHz wireless sensor networks (WSN) in 0.18 μ m RF CMOS technology. It was based on a double-balanced Gilbert cell type, with two Gilbert cells having quadrature modulation applied. Current-reuse and cross positive feedback techniques were applied in the mixer to boost conversion gain; the current source stage was removed from the mixer to improve linearity. Measured results exhibited that under a 1 V power supply, the conversion gain was 5 dB, the input referred 1 dB compression point was -11 dBm and the ⅡP3 was -0.75 dBm, while it only consumed 1.4 mW.
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