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A High-Performance Doubly-Balanced Mixer in 0.35-μm CMOS for Mode-1 MB-OFDM UWB Receivers

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A new design of CMOS doubly-balanced down-conversion mixer intended for Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) receiver of UWB group#1 bands and optimized for 0.35-μm technology is presented. The proposed mixer uses the current-bleeding technique in both the driver and switching stages with wideband impedance matching, consisting of a bandpass filter embedding the RF stage. The mixer performances are optimized for the AMS 0.35 μm CMOS process parameters. Over 3.1–4.8 GHz, the circuit drawing 6 mA from 3-V supply, shows a conversion gain of 14.0±1.0 dB, IIP3 of 0±2 dBm, doubly-sideband noise figure of 4.5–4.8 dB, and port-to-port isolation above 61.0 dB.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sultan Qaboos Univeristy, Al-Khod, Muscat, Oman

    Farid Touati

  2. Laboratoire d’Electronique et des Technologies de l’Information, National School of Engineering of Sfax, B.P. 3038, Sfax, Tunisia

    Skander Douss & Mourad Loulou

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Touati, F., Douss, S. & Loulou, M. A High-Performance Doubly-Balanced Mixer in 0.35-μm CMOS for Mode-1 MB-OFDM UWB Receivers. Wireless Pers Commun 46, 351–363 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-007-9438-1

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