An Integrated 50-GHz SiGe Sub-Harmonic Mixer/Downconverter with a Quadrature Ring VCO
- 1 January 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 223-226
- https://doi.org/10.1109/smic.2007.322825
Abstract
A 50 GHz sub-harmonic mixer based on multiple LO phases integrated with a 24 GHz quadrature ring VCO is fabricated in a 0.12mum SiGe BiCMOS process. The mixer core consumes 7 mA from a 3.3V supply. The mixer has a conversion gain of 9 dB and an SSB noise figure of 11.8 dBKeywords
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