Abstract
A downconverting second harmonic self-oscillating mixer (SOM) is developed for low-cost wireless communications applications. Incorporating resonant cell in the SOM, we can provide suitable oscillation for generating LO and terminations to all major unwanted mixing products, leading to high conversion gain design. The proposed SOM was measured with 8.5 dB downconversion gain at the RF frequency of 8.2 GHz RF, LO frequency of 4.0 GHz, and IF frequency of 0.2 GHz. The proposed design achieves higher conversion gain than that of the SOM without resonant cell.
Highlights
Compact, inexpensive, and low-power-consumption frontend transceivers are the crucial elements in the future wireless systems
Self-oscillating mixer (SOM), which combines both functions of local oscillator (LO) and frequency conversion, will be a good candidate for the compact wireless systems
SOM has found interests in the many radio frequency (RF)/microwave transceivers, as the SOM exhibits smaller size and potentially lower overall DC power consumption compared to their conventional counterpart arrangement of separated active mixer and oscillator
Summary
Inexpensive, and low-power-consumption frontend transceivers are the crucial elements in the future wireless systems. Self-oscillating mixer (SOM), which combines both functions of local oscillator (LO) and frequency conversion, will be a good candidate for the compact wireless systems. Over this decade, SOM has found interests in the many radio frequency (RF)/microwave transceivers, as the SOM exhibits smaller size and potentially lower overall DC power consumption compared to their conventional counterpart arrangement of separated active mixer and oscillator. A satisfactory isolation between the RF, LO, and IF can be achieved by simple filtering techniques The performance such as conversion gain is not as good as the fundamental SOM. We can provide proper return paths for the RF, IF and other unwanted mixing products simultaneously, leading to a very high conversion gain design without sacrificing the circuit size
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