Active Wideband 55-100-GHz Downconversion Mixer in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Kimi Jokiniemi; Kaisa Ryynänen; Joni Vähä; Elmo Kankkunen; Kari Stadius; Jussi Ryynänen

doi:10.1109/NorCAS58970.2023.10305458

Active Wideband 55-100-GHz Downconversion Mixer in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Kimi Jokiniemi^*, Kaisa Ryynänen, Joni Vähä, Elmo Kankkunen, Kari Stadius, Jussi Ryynänen

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Abstract

This paper presents a wideband active CMOS downconversion mixer for emerging mmWave communication and sensing applications. The designed mixer utilizes transformer coupling between the transconductance stage and switching stage of a classic Gilbert cell mixer to introduce inductive peaking and decouple the stages at DC. This technique efficiently allows the improvement of Gilbert cell mixer bandwidth, gain and linearity. Additionally, the designed mixer structure comprises a transformer-loaded common-source LO buffer and a two-stage wide bandwidth IF amplifier. The complete mixer consumes 33 mW of power from a low 0.8-V supply voltage. The mixer has been implemented with a 22-nm FDSOI CMOS process and its layout area is 0.13 mm 2 . The design achieves a measured peak voltage conversion gain of 3.5 dB and particularly a wide 3-dB RF bandwidth from 55 to 100 GHz, covering a range of mmWave bands with a single device. The mixer also demonstrates a wide 10-GHz IF output bandwidth suitable for high channel bandwidth applications, as well as an input 1-dB gain compression point of -6 dBm.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2023 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS)
Editors	Jari Nurmi, Peeter Ellervee, Peter Koch, Farshad Moradi, Ming Shen
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3503-3757-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NorCAS58970.2023.10305458
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference - Aalborg, Denmark Duration: 31 Oct 2023 → 1 Nov 2023

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Conference	IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference
Abbreviated title	NorCAS
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aalborg
Period	31/10/2023 → 01/11/2023

Keywords

Millimeter wave integrated circuits
CMOS
downconversion
active mixer
transformer coupling

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Jokiniemi, K, Ryynänen, K, Vähä, J, Kankkunen, E, Stadius, K & Ryynänen, J 2023, Active Wideband 55-100-GHz Downconversion Mixer in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS. in J Nurmi, P Ellervee, P Koch, F Moradi & M Shen (eds), 2023 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS). IEEE, IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 31/10/2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/NorCAS58970.2023.10305458

Active Wideband 55-100-GHz Downconversion Mixer in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS. / Jokiniemi, Kimi; Ryynänen, Kaisa; Vähä, Joni et al.
2023 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS). ed. / Jari Nurmi; Peeter Ellervee; Peter Koch; Farshad Moradi; Ming Shen. IEEE, 2023.

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