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
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2023 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 122-124 |
Number of pages | 3 |
ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-6654-9418-2 |
ISBN (print) | 978-1-6654-9419-9 |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
Title | 31st Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference |
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Subtitle | Microwave Linking the World |
Abbreviated title | APMC 2023 |
Conference number | 31 |
Duration | 5 - 8 December 2023 |
City | Taipei |
Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0001-6778-7846/work/159607343 |
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ORCID | /0000-0003-1177-8750/work/159608406 |
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Keywords
- 22 nm FD-SOI, back-gate, CMOS, down-conversion mixer, millimeter-wave integrated circuits, switchable