An ultra-low-power 5 GHz front end with feedforward body bias LNA and single to double balance subharmonic mixer topology for direct conversion receiver

An ultra-low-power 5 GHz front end with feedforward body bias LNA and single to double balance subharmonic mixer topology for direct conversion receiver is presented. The proposed front end shows higher conversion gain and better noise figure than the conventional front end with subharmonic passive mixer architecture and in the meanwhile retains the advantage of the conventional such as low DC offset and low flicker noise. The measured result demonstrates that the proposed front end can achieve 28.5 dB conversion gain, 3.8 dB average noise figure, 100 KHz flicker noise corner, and dBm the input-referred third-order intercept point. 2LO-to-RF isolation is dB, LO-to-RF is -90dB, 2LO-to-IF is -50 dB, LO-to-IF is -70 dB. The power consumption is 1mW with 0.6V supply voltage. The chip area is 0.5 x 0.53mm(2).