A 1-V wideband low-power CMOS active differential power splitter for wireless communication

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1593-1599

  Lee, Shuenn Yuh ^a,b   Lai, Chun Cheng ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Balun; CMOS; Low power; Low voltage; Phase splitter; Power splitter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ERROR ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FREQUENCY COMPENSATION; PHASE ERROR; PHASE SPLITTERS; POWER IMBALANCE; POWER SPLITTERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34547984900     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.901130     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. B. Razavi, "Design considerations for direct-conversion receivers," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II, Analog Digit. Signal Process., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 428-435, Jun. 1997.
2. B. Razavi, RF Microeletronics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.
3. S.-Y. Lee, M. F. Huan, and C. J. Kuo, "Analysis and implementation of a CMOS even harmonic mixer with current reuse for heterodyne/direct conversion receivers," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I, Reg. Paper, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 1741-1751, Sep. 2005.
4. M. F. Huan, C. J. Kuo, and S.-Y. Lee, "A 5.25 GHz CMOS folded-cas-code even harmonic mixer for low voltage applications," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 660-669, Feb. 2006.
5. A. H. Baree and I. D. Robertson, "Monolithic MESFET distributed baluns based on the distributed amplifier gate-line termination technique," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 188-195, Feb. 1997.
6. H. Kamitsuna and H. Ogawa, "Ultra-wideband MMIC active power splitters with arbitrary phase relationships," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 41, no. 9, pp. 1519-1523, Sep. 1993.
7. J. Lin, C. Zelley, O. B. Lubeeke, P. Gould, and R. Yan, "A silicon MMIC active balun/buffer amplifier with high linearity and low residual phase noise," in IEEE MTT-S Int. Microw. Symp. Dig., 2000, pp. 1289-1292.
8. C. Viallon, D. Venturin, J. Graffeuil, and T. Parra, "Design of an original K-band active balun with improved broadband balanced behavior," IEEE Microw. Wireless Compon. Lett., vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 280-282, Apr. 2005.
9. H. Ma, S. J. Fang, F. Lin, and H. Nakamura, "Novel active differential phase splitters in RFIC for wireless applications," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2597-2603, Dec. 1998.
10. C. W. Tang, J. W. Sheen, and C. Y. Chang, "Chip-type LTCC-MLC baluns using the stepped impedance method," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 2342-2349, Dec. 2001.
11. M. Kawashima, T. Nakagawa, and K. Araki, "A novel broadband active balun," in Eur. Microw. Conf., 2003, pp. 495-498.
12. C.-W. Kim, M.-S. Kang, P. T. Anh., H.-T. Kim, and S.-G. Lee, "An ultra-wideband CMOS low noise amplifier for 3-5 GHz UWB system," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 544-547, Feb. 2005.