Noise and Nonlinearity Modeling of Active Mixers for Fast and Accurate Estimation

W. Cheng; Anne J. Annema; Jeroen A. Croon; Bram Nauta

doi:10.1109/TCSI.2010.2072110

Noise and Nonlinearity Modeling of Active Mixers for Fast and Accurate Estimation

W. Cheng, Anne J. Annema, Jeroen A. Croon, Bram Nauta

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Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a model of active mixers for a fast and accurate estimation of noise and nonlinearity. Based on closed-form expressions, this model estimates the noise figure, IIP3, and IIP2 of the time-varying mixer by a limited number of time-invariant circuit calculations. The model shows that the decreasing transistor output resistance, together with the low supply voltage in deep-submicrometer technologies, significantly contributes to the flicker-noise leakage. Design insights for low flicker noise are then presented. The model also shows that the slope of the LO signal has a significant effect on IIP2, while it has a little effect on IIP3. A new IP2 calibration technique using slope tuning is presented.

Original language	Undefined
Pages (from-to)	276-289
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE transactions on circuits and systems I: regular papers
Volume	58
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2010.2072110
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2011

Keywords

intermodulation
dc offset
mismatch
EWI-19776
METIS-279139
flicker noise
Active mixer
IIP2
IIP3
Nonlinearity
IR-76354

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