A double balanced passive mixer-based receiver operating in the 3-5 GHz UWB for medical applications is described in this paper. The receiver front-end circuit is composed of an inductorless low noise amplifier (LNA) followed by a fully differential voltage-driven double-balanced passive mixer. A duty cycle of 25% was chosen to eliminate overlap between LO signals, thereby improving receiver linearity. The LNA realizes a gain of 25.3 dB and a noise figure of 2.9 dB. The proposed receiver achieves an IIP3 of 3.14 dBm, an IIP2 of 17.5 dBm and an input return loss (S11) below -12.5dB. Designed in 0.18μm CMOS technology, the proposed mixer consumes 0.72pW from a 1.8V power supply. The designed receiver demonstrated a good ports isolation performance with LO_IF isolation of 60dB and RF_IF isolation of 78dB.
A low-voltage RF CMOS receiver front-end and an energy harvesting power circuit for a piezoelectric source are presented as a co-designed solution for a Wireless Sensor Node. A MOSFET-only Wideband balun LNA with noise cancelling and a 0.6 V supply voltage is designed in conjunction with a passive mixer. The passive mixer operates in current mode, allowing a minimal introduction of voltage noise and a good linearity. The receiver front-end reaches a total voltage conversion gain of 31 dB, a 0.1-5.2 GHZ bandwidth, an IIP3 value of -1.35 dBm, and a noise figure inferior to 9 dB. The total power consumption is 1.95 mW. The energy harvesting power circuit consists of an active full bridge cross-coupled rectifier followed by a low-dropout (LDO) regulator, and it is able to guarantee a power output of 6 mW with a regulated output voltage of 0.6 V, for typical vibration patterns.
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