A wideband (0.8ââ?¬â??6GHz) receiver front-end (RFE) utilizing a shunt resistive feedback low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a micromixer\r\nis realized in 90nm CMOS technology for software-defined radio (SDR) applications.With the shunt resistive feedback and series\r\ninductive peaking, the proposed LNA is able to achieve a wideband frequency response in input matching, power gain and noise\r\nfigure (NF). A micromixer down converts the radio signal and performs single-to-differential transition. Measurements show the\r\nconversion gain higher than 17 dB and input matching (S11) better than -7.3 dB from 0.8 to 6GHz. The IIP3 ranges from -7 to\r\n-10 dBm, and the NF from 4.5 to 5.9 dB. This wideband receiver occupies 0.48mm2 and consumes 13mW.
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