Design And Implementation Of Up-Conversion Mixer And Lc- Quadrature Oscillator For Ieee 802.11 A Wlan Transmitter Application Utilizing 0.18 F.!M Cmos Technology

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2008-11
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Harikrishnan Ramiah
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The drive for cost reduction has led to the use of CMOS technology for highly integrated radios. This work proposes a low voltage, folded, bias point compensation integrated CMOS active mixer with current draining adaptation to enhance the linearity and switching efficiency of the transconductor and pMOS based switching quad stage accommodating 5.15 GHz to 5.35 GHz, IEEE 802.11 a WLAN two step up-conversion transmitter standards. An enhanced investigation and design of a source injection parallel coupled (SIPC) quadrature voltage controlled oscillator (QVCO) in comparison of the conventional LC-QVCO realized in pMOS based cross coupled switching stage is also presented. The design, implementation and characterization of the complementary stage SIPC LC-QVCO with integrated 50 n cross coupled open drain buffer, is subsequently proposed adapting the highlighted wireless standard. Implemented in 0.18 flm, 6 metal, 1 poly, 1.8 V standard CMOS technology and catering to the need of integration in the proposed up-conversion mixer and SIPCQVCO topology, a low voltage high precision bandgap reference (BGR) circuit with a reference voltage simulated at 1.246 V, a regulated resistive weighted bias network and an integrated depletion mode MOS varactor accommodating a parallel combination of an on chip self shielding stacked spiral inductor forming an LC tank resonator, is presented. The compensated bias network integrated up-conversion mixer topology exhibit a comparable simulated linearity of 12.57 dBm with the accompanying simulated third order adjacent interferer (lIPJ ) and an input dynamic range (mdB) of 6.62 dBm at 3.5 GHz of LO frequency, with 10 - 500 MHz of input baseband frequency. The corresponding standalone up-conversion mixer topology independently dissipates 5.58 mW of simulated power. Accompanied with bondwire and parasitic load degradation, the standalone architecture measures an output power of -65.57 dBm at the up-converted sideband, with -22 dBm and -10 dBm of input baseband (BB) and local oscillator (LO) power, respectively. The input bias network to the transconductor stage of the proposed up-conversion mixer observes a simulated bias voltage, Vb variation of approximately 4 mV over the temperature range of -40°C to 80°C while dissipating 0.986 mW of simulated power. The complementary and single coupled pMOS based SIPC LC-QVCO topology indicates a simulated phase noise performance of -113.22 dBc/Hz and -111.43 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 1 MHz, respectively. The respective simulated power dissipation in the complementary and single coupled pMOS stage is indicated to be 17.73 mWand 15.42 mW with accompanying 6.5 % and 32.5 % of simulated tuning range at 1.8 V of supply voltage. The proposed complementary based SIPC-QVCO architecture measures an oscillation at 2.67 GHz, with a tuning range degradation of 35 %. The integrating LC resonator tank exhibits, approximately -32 % of simulated independent varactor tuning with approximately 5.8, tank quality factor Qtank at 3.5 GHz of center frequency. In this work a voltage precision bandgap reference, ten different independent stacked spiral inductor, an up-conversion mixer and a complementary SIPC-QVCO architecture were designed and characterized independently.
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The drive for cost reduction has led , technology for highly integrated radios
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