Low voltage 2-mW 6/spl sim/10.6-GHz ultra-wideband CMOS mixer with active balun

• Published in: 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) p. 4 pp.
• Main Authors: Ta-Tao Hsu, Chien-Nan Kuo
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2006
• Subjects: Circuits; CMOS technology; Impedance matching; Low voltage; MOS devices; Operational amplifiers; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; RF signals; Ultra wideband technology

A low-voltage and low-power CMOS mixer with an active balun is designed for frequency down-conversion in ultra-wideband applications. The mixer contains CMOS amplifiers as the LO buffer and the modulating stage in a folded configuration to allow low-voltage operation. The RF input signal comes from...