标签: upconversion

DesigninganRFICCMOSupconversionmixerdesignsoftwareDesigninganRFICCMOSupconversionmixerSoftwaretohelptheengineerdesignandimplementaCMOSmixeronanRFICplatform―issues,tradeoffsandsolutions.ByStephenLongesigningamixertoworkwithinaradiofrequencyintegratedcircuit(RFIC)ischallenging.Differingperformancespecificationsmustbeprioritizedbasedontheapplication.Somespecificationsareforreceiveapplicationswithawiderangeofinputsignallevelswheremaximumlinearityunderlargesignalconditionsisoftenmorecriticalthanthenoisefigure.Ontheotherhand,fortransmitapplicationswherethesignallevelscanbecontrolled,thedesignstrategyshiftstotradeoffsbetweennoiseandintermodulationdistortion(IMD)behaviortoachievethelargestuseabledynamicrange.Inthis……