Self-Oscillating Mixing Technique and its Application to Low-Cost Receiver Architectures

Simone Winkler; Ke Wu; Andreas Stelzer

Self-Oscillating Mixing Technique and its Application to Low-Cost Receiver Architectures

Simone Winkler, Ke Wu, Andreas Stelzer

Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems

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Abstract

Self-oscillating mixers (SOMs) are an excellent choice for low-cost modern receiver architectures, because both the oscillating source and the mixer are combined in one single device. Moreover, subharmonic operation reduces LO frequency requirements and therefore provides a very good choice for millimeter-wave systems. In this paper, a fullybalanced SOM structure at high harmonics with high conversion gain is presented. The balanced structure provides inherent RF-LO isolation and suppression of harmonics and noise as well as it removes the input balun from the design, which permits integration into a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE 2006
Pages	248 - 251
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - May 2006

Fields of science

202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering
202019 High frequency engineering
202029 Microwave engineering
202030 Communication engineering
202033 Radar technology
202037 Signal processing
202038 Telecommunications

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