Publication Date
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Committee Members
Henry Chen (Advisor), Jiafeng Xie (Committee Member), Yan Zhuang (Committee Member)
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)
Abstract
The double-balanced Gilbert mixer is widely used in RF receivers. In general, it is desirable to design a wide tuning frequency Gilbert mixer for low power, high conversion gain, low noise figure, and good linearity, but they are not easy to attain simultaneously. Therefore, trade-offs always exist by tuning design parameters. To observe the trade-off relationship between each tunable parameter and to make a mixer achieve specified requirements easily (i.e., tuning frequency range, bandwidth, and power), an automated design synthesis and verification approach for Gilbert mixer is proposed. A wide tuning CMOS Gilbert mixer design synthesis while keeping the local oscillator frequency of 2 GHz is presented as an example. Designed in 180 nanometer CMOS process, the tunable Gilbert mixer achieves a tuning frequency span of 2 GHz (1.1 - 3.1 GHz), a controllable bandwidth of ~50 MHz, a high conversion gain (0.5 – 6.4 dB), a low noise figure (6.81 – 8.36 dB), and a power of 9 mW.
Page Count
52
Department or Program
Department of Electrical Engineering
Year Degree Awarded
2017
Copyright
Copyright 2017, all rights reserved. My ETD will be available under the "Fair Use" terms of copyright law.
