A sub-mW all-passive RF front end with implicit capacitive stacking achieving 13 dB gain, 5 dB NF and +25 dBm OOB-IIP3

Vijaya Kumar Purushothaman; Eric A.M. Klumperink; Berta Trullas Clavere; Bram  Nauta

doi:10.1109/RFIC.2019.8701860

A sub-mW all-passive RF front end with implicit capacitive stacking achieving 13 dB gain, 5 dB NF and +25 dBm OOB-IIP3

Vijaya Kumar Purushothaman
, Eric A.M. Klumperink
, Berta Trullas Clavere
, Bram Nauta

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This paper presents a sub-mW mixer-first RF front-end that exploits a novel capacitive stacking technique in an altered bottom-plate N-path filter/mixer to achieve passive voltage gain and high-linearity at low noise figure. Capacitive stacking is realized implicitly by reading out the voltage from the bottom-plate of N-path capacitors instead of their top-plate, which provides a 2x gain at the read-out capacitors. Additional passive voltage gain is achieved using impedance upconversion while improving the out-of-band linearity performance of small switches. With no other active circuitry, only clock generation circuits determine the total power consumption of this RF front-end. A prototype is fabricated in GF22 nm FDSOI technology. Operating at f _LO= 1 GHz, the prototype achieves a voltage gain of 13 dB, 5 dB Noise Figure and +25/+66 dBm Out-of-band IIP3/IIP2 at 160 MHz offset while consuming only 600 μW of power from a 0.8 V supply.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium 2019
Place of Publication	Boston, Massachusetts, US
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	91-94
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-1701-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2019.8701860
Publication status	Published - 3 Jun 2019
Event	IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium 2019 - Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, United States Duration: 2 Jun 2019 → 4 Jun 2019

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Conference	IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium 2019
Abbreviated title	RFIC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	2/06/19 → 4/06/19

Keywords

passive mixer
N-path filter
mixer-first receiver
bottom plate mixing
capacitive stacking
high linearity
Low Power
RF front-ends

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Low-Power High-Linearity Mixer-First receiver using implicit capacitive Stacking with 3× voltage gain
Purushothaman, V. K., Klumperink, E. A. M., Plompen, R. & Nauta, B., 1 Jan 2022, In: IEEE journal of solid-state circuits. 57, 1, p. 245-259 15 p.
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A sub-mW all-passive RF front end with implicit capacitive stacking achieving 13 dB gain, 5 dB NF and +25 dBm OOB-IIP3. / Purushothaman, Vijaya Kumar; Klumperink, Eric A.M.; Trullas Clavere, Berta et al.
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Low-Power High-Linearity Mixer-First receiver using implicit capacitive Stacking with 3× voltage gain

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