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Design of Variable Gain Receiver Front-end with Wide Gain Variable Range and Low Power Consumption for 5.25 GHz  

Ahn, Young-Bin (Department of computer and radio communication engineering, Korea University)
Jeong, Ji-Chai (Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University)
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Journal of IKEEE / v.14, no.4, 2010 , pp. 257-262 More about this Journal
Abstract
We design a CMOS front-end with wide variable gain and low power consumption for 5.25 GHz band. To obtain wide variable gain range, a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (PMOS FET) in the low noise amplifier (LNA) section is connected in parallel. For a mixer, single balanced and folded structure is employed for low power consumption. Using this structure, the bias currents of the transconductance and switching stages in the mixer can be separated without using current bleeding path. The proposed front-end has a maximum gain of 33.2 dB with a variable gain range of 17 dB. The noise figure and third-order input intercept point (IIP3) are 4.8 dB and -8.5 dBm, respectively. For this operation, the proposed front-end consumes 7.1 mW at high gain mode, and 2.6 mW at low gain mode. The simulation results are performed using Cadence RF spectre with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) $0.18\;{\mu}m$ CMOS technology.)
Keywords
LNA; mixer; front-end; variable gain; low power;
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