The BLIXER, Integrated Balun-LNA-Mixer for ZigBee Application

Objectives: The main objective of this paper is to design a Blixer using noise-cancelling technique and balun –LNA-Mixer for better performance. Methods: As studied in literature of mixers, it shows they have less bandwidth disadvantage. This paper is concentrated to realize a wide bandwidth mixer by keeping the real part of the impedance of all RF nodes low, and using this mixer there is no capacitive loading problem. Findings: By avoiding use of inductors, the on chip size of circuit will be reduced and also the bandwidth extension requirement is fulfilled. This gives less DC-voltage drop after IF filtering. The design is implemented and simulated using Advanced Design System tool in CMOS 0.18um technology. The noise figure of the final BLIXER is obtained as 0.6dB and that of LNA is less than 2dB. This results are one of the best seen for a BLIXER. Applications: This design is well suited for wideband ZigBee receiver in wireless communication systems.