The design trade-off in the front-end of the transceiver,such as LNA,mixer,local oscillator and PA,is concerned. The advantages and limitations of the circuit topologies and key parameters of the state-of-the-art CMOS...The design trade-off in the front-end of the transceiver,such as LNA,mixer,local oscillator and PA,is concerned. The advantages and limitations of the circuit topologies and key parameters of the state-of-the-art CMOS transceiver building blocks are discussed in order to gain more insight about a specific block design. A normalized formula of the figures of merit for each building block is also proposed to evaluate the overall performance of various circuits for fair comparison.展开更多
文摘The design trade-off in the front-end of the transceiver,such as LNA,mixer,local oscillator and PA,is concerned. The advantages and limitations of the circuit topologies and key parameters of the state-of-the-art CMOS transceiver building blocks are discussed in order to gain more insight about a specific block design. A normalized formula of the figures of merit for each building block is also proposed to evaluate the overall performance of various circuits for fair comparison.