A low power folded RF front-end with merged LNA and mixer for ZigBee/Bluetooth

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Hwang, Yong-Seok [1 ]
Yoo, Hyung-Joun [1 ]
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[1] Informat & Commun Univ, Sch Engn, 119 Munji Ro, Taejon 305732, South Korea
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low power; RF front-end; folded technique; current-reuse; low flicker noise;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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摘要
A folded RF front-end with merged LNA and mixer is designed in 0.25 um CMOS process for low power applications. The designed low power RF front-end uses the folded and current reuse techniques. It consumes 13.8 mW from 1.7 V supply voltage, while 5.2 dB NF and 25.7 dB conversion gain are achieved. By using PMOS in the switching stage of the folded mixer, low flicker noise of 7 dB at 10 kHz is also achieved. The proposed RF front-end can be used in direct conversion receiver for a relatively narrow bandwidth system.
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