Analysis of Device Mismatches Effect on the Performance of UWB Receiver Front-End in Wireless Body Area Network Sensor Nodes
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Title
Analysis of Device Mismatches Effect on the Performance of UWB Receiver Front-End in Wireless Body Area Network Sensor Nodes
Subject
WBAN UWB receiver, LNA, Passive mixer, Transistor Mismatch; Monte carlo
Description
Today it is important to manufacture high quality integrated circuits which are insensitive to device mismatches. This paper presents an analysis of MOSFET transistors mismatches effect on the performance of UWB receiver front-end which constitute the most important part of Wireless Body Area Network sensor node. The receiver is based on Balun LNA with 25% fully differential double-balanced passive mixer. A PMOS and NMOS transistors mismatch models were proposed to determine LNA output offset voltage and mixer offset current respectively. The analysis result suggests that, to minimize NMOS current mismatch, and thus reducing second-order inter modulation distortion, the overdrive voltage must be maximized. A Monte Carlo and harmonic balance simulations were performed using 0.18µm CMOS process to evaluate the impact of mismatch as well as Vth mismatch on the receiver gain and IIP2. Simulation results show that IIP2 of the receiver is less sensitive to mixer NMOS mismatch but receiver gain is more sensitive. The receiver IIP2 confidence interval in case of NMOS mismatch is [24.674, 24.77]dBm and in case of NMOS Vth mismatch is [24.659, 24.857]dBm. This show the robustness of the proposed UWB receiver front end. Therefore the proposed circuit meets the requirement of UWB system perfectly which make it suitable for WBAN applications.
Creator
Thaar A.Kareem
Saif Benali
Hatem Trabelsi
Source
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 17 No. 06 (2023); pp. 180-196
1865-7923
Publisher
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria
Date
2023-03-21
Rights
Copyright (c) 2023 Haider TH.Salim ALRikabi, Thaar A.Kareem, Saif Benali, Hatem Trabelsi
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
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Citation
Thaar A.Kareem, Saif Benali and Hatem Trabelsi, Analysis of Device Mismatches Effect on the Performance of UWB Receiver Front-End in Wireless Body Area Network Sensor Nodes, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2023, accessed November 5, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2538