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A 1–3 GHz CMOS mixer-first receiver frontend with dual-feedback OTA achieving 306 MHz IF bandwidth, 2.1 dB NF, and 33 dB gain

Benqing Guo

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5376-4942

College of Communication Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China

E-mail Address: rficgbq@gmail.com

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Haishi Wang

College of Communication Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China

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Huifen Wang

Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhengzhou 450000, China

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Yao Wang

School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

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Abstract

In this paper, a mixer-first receiver frontend with dual-feedback baseband is proposed. The negative resistive and positive capacitive feedback paths are both applied to single-stage inverter-based operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with fewer poles, to cover a wide BB frequency range. The $N$ -path filtering at the RF side and second-order filtering at the BB side inhibit out-of-band blocker interferences. The receiver frontend is designed in 65 nm CMOS. Simulation results display an NF of 2.1 dB across 306 MHz IF bandwidth, and a maximum gain of 33 dB from 1 to 3 GHz LO frequency range. The in-band and out-of-band IIP3 are -13 and 16 dBm, respectively. The receiver core draws 40 mW at 1 GHz LO frequency.

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