Single-Stage Low-Power Quadrature RF Receiver Front-End: The LMV Cell

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

doi:10.1109/JSSC.2006.884824

Single-Stage Low-Power Quadrature RF Receiver Front-End: The LMV Cell

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

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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 0.13um 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.

Original language	English
Journal	I E E E Journal of Solid State Circuits
Volume	41
Pages (from-to)	2832-2841
ISSN	0018-9200
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2006.884824
Publication status	Published - 2006

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RF
receiver
low-voltage
CMOS
low-power
current-reuse

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