Inductors allow low-voltage performance for IC-mixters

Ari Vauhkonen; Esa Tarvainen

doi:10.1109/ICECS.1998.813333

Inductors allow low-voltage performance for IC-mixters

Ari Vauhkonen
, Esa Tarvainen

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

VTT (former employee or external)

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Abstract

In this paper it is established how planar inductors on silicon and bond-wire inductors can be used to scale down the supply voltage to 1.5 V for Gilbert type RF mixers. A demonstration mixer which downconverts a signal from 900 MHz to an intermediate frequency of 50 MHz is implemented in a 0.8 µm BiCMOS process offered by Austria Mikro Systeme International GmbH. The measurement results for the mixer as well the lumped element models for the used planar inductor and for the bondwire are presented. The measurements suggest that a pleasing return loss of about 9 dB is obtained for both the input and output ports of the mixer without using any external components for impedance matching.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	1998 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Surfing the Waves of Science and Technology
Place of Publication	Lissabon
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	329-332
ISBN (Print)	0-7803-5008-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.1998.813333
Publication status	Published - 1998
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	5th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems. ICECS '98 - Lissabon, Portugal Duration: 7 Sept 1998 → 10 Sept 1998

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Conference	5th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems. ICECS '98
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lissabon
Period	7/09/98 → 10/09/98

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Vauhkonen, A & Tarvainen, E 1998, Inductors allow low-voltage performance for IC-mixters. in 1998 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems: Surfing the Waves of Science and Technology. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Lissabon, pp. 329-332, 5th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems. ICECS '98, Lissabon, Portugal, 7/09/98. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECS.1998.813333

Inductors allow low-voltage performance for IC-mixters. / Vauhkonen, Ari; Tarvainen, Esa.
1998 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems: Surfing the Waves of Science and Technology. Lissabon: IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1998. p. 329-332.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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