An Ultra-Low Power Self-Oscillating Mixer for WSN applications

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作者
Kraiemia, H. [1 ]
Taris, T. [1 ]
Begueret, J-B. [1 ]
Deval, Y. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bordeaux, IMS Lab, F-33405 Talence, France
来源
2013 EUROPEAN MICROWAVE CONFERENCE (EUMC) | 2013年
关键词
Ultra-low power; mixer; oscillator; CMOS;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An ultra-low power (ULP) self-oscillating mixer (SOM) using moderate inversion operation is presented. It consists in a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) stacked on a single balanced current commuting mixer which is led by an RF transconductor stage. The measurement results show that the proposed SOM exhibit a minimum SSB noise figure of 17.5 dB and a voltage conversion gain of 10 dB. The input P1dB compression point is -20.5 dBm. Operating under 1 V supply, the chip has a power consumption of 600 mu W and an occupying area of 1.2 mm(2) including pads.
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页数:4
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