A Wideband Low-Power RF-to-BB Current-Reuse Receiver Using an Active Inductor and 1 /f Noise-Cancellation for L-Band Applications

A low-power and wideband RF-to-baseband (BB) current-reuse receiver (CRR) front-end utilizing both a $1/f$ noise cancellation (NC) technique an active inductor (AI) is proposed tuned to operate from 1 GHz 1.7 for L-Band applications, including those that require high modulation bandwidths. The CRR employs single supply shares the bias current of low transconductance amplifier (LNTA) with BB circuits reduce power consumption. To minimize losses radio frequency (RF) signal right before down-conversion, impedance AI circuit isolates mixer input output node. NC suppresses LNTA leaks output. common-gate notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm {g_{m}}$ -boosting, along single-to-differential LC-balun are used enhance matching, conversion gain figure (NF). fabricated in TSMC 130 nm CMOS process occupies area 0.54mm2. matching (S11) below ?10 dB GHz. At local-oscilator (LO) 1.3 GHz, intermediate-frequency (IF) 10 MHz default settings, achieves 41.5 dB, double-sideband (DSB) NF 6.5 IIP3 ?28.2 dBm while consuming 1.66 mA 1.2 V supply.