A 6.25 mm2 2.4 GHz CMOS 802.11b Transceiver

Yong-Hsiang HSIEH
Wei-Yi HU
Wen-Kai LI
Shin-Ming LIN
Chao-Liang CHEN
David J. CHEN
Sao-Jie CHEN

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E88-C    No.8    pp.1716-1722
Publication Date: 2005/08/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.8.1716
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Papers Selected from AP-ASIC 2004)
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Keyword: 
802.11b,  CMOS RF transceiver,  image-reject mixer,  2.4 GHz transceiver,  filter reuse,  IF circuits reuse,  

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Summary: 
This CMOS transceiver IC exploits the superheterodyne architecture to implement a low-cost RF front-end with only 6.25 mm2 die area for IEEE 802.11b standard. The transceiver is implemented in 0.25 µm CMOS process with 2.7 V supply voltage, and achieves a -86 dBm 11 Mb/s receive sensitivity and a 2 dBm transmit output power.