A 60 GHz Down-Conversion Mixer featuring Energy-saving Standby-Mode in 22 nm FD-SOI

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Abstract

This paper presents a 60 GHz switchable down-conversion mixer implemented in a 22 nm Fully-Depleted-Silicon-On-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology. The mixer consists of an local oscillator (LO) single-ended to differential (S2D) driver and a Gilbert cell based mixer core with baseband buffers. Thanks to the LO S2D driver, the mixer only requires a minimum LO power of -15 dBm for operation. The measured peak conversion gain is 8 dB. Including the LO driver and baseband buffers, the total DC power is 23 mW. The circuit core consumes 0.11 mm2 of area. Compared to the state-of-the-art mixers at 60 GHz, the circuit shows the highest bandwidth and gain, and the lowest LO power. Furthermore, to the author' best knowledge, this is the first investigation of a 60 GHz down-conversion mixer regarding fast switching between active and standby-mode using the back-gate for the mixer core avoiding the critical transistor breakdown problem induced by the switching.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel2023 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC)
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seiten122-124
Seitenumfang3
ISBN (elektronisch)978-1-6654-9418-2
ISBN (Print)978-1-6654-9419-9
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel31st Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference
UntertitelMicrowave Linking the World
KurztitelAPMC 2023
Veranstaltungsnummer31
Dauer5 - 8 Dezember 2023
StadtTaipei
LandTaiwan

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-6778-7846/work/159607343
ORCID /0000-0003-1177-8750/work/159608406

Schlagworte

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Schlagwörter

  • 22 nm FD-SOI, back-gate, CMOS, down-conversion mixer, millimeter-wave integrated circuits, switchable