Design Of LNA and Mixer For 2.4 GHz Front End Receiver on Cadence
Keywords:
LNA, Cadence, RF Front End Receiver, MixerAbstract
The demand for low-cost, low-power, high-speed, and high-volume wireless products for high-frequency transceivers has been explosive and unanticipated. With the improvement of integrated circuit (IC) technology, the size of electronic components, like transistors, has consistently shrunk. Following the scale-down in channel length, there has been an improvement in unity gain cutoff frequency (fT) and maximum operating frequency (fmax), which highlights the potential of CMOS technology at the front end of an RF system. An LNA (Low Noise Amplifier) and mixer for a 2.4 GHz front-end receiver were designed in 180 nm CMOS technology and operated at a supply voltage of 1.8 V using the Virtuoso Schematic Editor of Cadence and Spectre-RF simulator tool.
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