An integrated 8‐mW 2.4‐GHz CMOS RF receiver for low‐power WPAN

A fully integrated 2.4-GHz CMOS receiver IC for the low-power wireless personal area network (WPAN) is reported. In the proposed receiver, low power operation is achieved by using low voltage linear RF front-end circuit based on current mirror amplifier based mixer and the interleaved analog baseband filter-amplifier chain. The fully integrated receiver was fabricated in 0.18 μm CMOS technology and IIP3 of −29 dBm and noise figure of 9.6 dB at high gain mode were obtained at 8.4 mW power consumption from a 1.2 V supply. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 2345–2348, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23652