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This work presents low-power- and high-gain CMOS down-conversion Gilbert cell mixer for ultrawide band application, designed in 0.18 μm CMOS technology. Inductive source degeneration is used at the RF trans-conductance stage of Gilbert cell mixer to increase its linearity. Differential LC matching is used at RF and LO stage to increase the conversion gain of mixer. Output buffer is used at the load to achieve 50 ohm impedance match to improve the return-loss of the mixer. The proposed mixer shows low reflection coefficient up to −19 dB for entire band ranges from 3.168 to 3.696 GHz frequency. The proposed mixer works at DC supply of 1.5 V with low power consumption. Simulation results show that the mixer achieves the conversion gain of 10.60 dB, 1 dB compression point of −10.596, IIP3 is +0.056 dBm and matched RF (input) port impedance of 50.7 ohm.
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Bansal, G., Chaturvedi, A. (2018). A 3.432 GHz Low-Power High-Gain Down-Conversion Gilbert Cell Mixer in 0.18 μm CMOS Technology for UWB Application. In: Hu, YC., Tiwari, S., Mishra, K., Trivedi, M. (eds) Intelligent Communication and Computational Technologies. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5523-2_23
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