Solid State Circuits Society

RF Mixers: Analysis and Design Trade-offs

Shortcourse proudly hosted by

IEEE Santa Clara Valley: Circuits and Systems Society and Solid State Circuits Society

 

Registration Link: http://rfmixer.eventbrite.com/ (Registration is required)
Date:     Saturday, November 10, 2012
Time:     10.00 AM – 12.45 PM

Where:  Texas Instruments Building E Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051

 

Mixers are essential building blocks of every RF transceiver, often compromising the noise and linearity performance of the entire receive or transmit chain. In this short course various mixer architectures such as passive vs. active, current-mode vs. voltage-mode, and their properties are analyzed and discussed. Of special importance, is the noise response of the mixers which is not very well understood due to the nonlinear and time variant nature of the block. We will focus on intuitive and qualitative ways of analyzing the noise of both passive and active mixers. More advanced topics such as 25% vs. 50% duty cycle design trade-offs, low/high side gain imbalance in complex receivers, as well as effects of noise and nonlinearity folding in both receivers and transmitters are discussed.

 

Hooman Darabi received the BS and MS degrees both in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1994, and 1996 respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999. He is currently a Sr. Technical Director and a Fellow with Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, as a part of mobile and wireless group. His interests include analog and RF IC design for wireless communications. Hooman is an IEEE distinguished lecturer.

 

 

IEEE Member: $40.00
non IEEE member: $50.00
TI Employee: Free, please show badge
Students, unemployed: $20.00

The tutorial will take place at Texas Instruments Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara, CA.  We will start at 10 AM and finish around 12:45 PM.

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