Sensitivity of a wide-band F.I.R. receiver using a Josephson self oscillator mixer

A dual-band receiver front-end using cur

A dual-band receiver front-end using current-mode passive mixer with digitally-controlled oscillator in 90-NM CMOS

✍ Jinghong Chen; Shaorui Li; Craig Appel; Brian Hotron; Lawrence 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 324 KB

## Abstract This work presents a receiver front‐end that targets mobile video applications, and integrates a dual‐band LNA, a current‐mode passive mixer, a reference Gilbert mixer, and a digitally‐controlled oscillator providing the quadrature LO signal for the mixers. The conversion gain and therm