Performance Analysis of a Reconfigurable Mixer Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Table 1

Comparison table.

Ref.	[36]	[13]	[37]	[38]	[39]	[40]	[41]	[42]	[43]	This work (S/S1/M1)	This work (S2/M2)	This work (S3/M3)
Freq. (GHz)	2.4	2.4	2.4	1-10	0.865-0.867	2.4	4-30	0.4	1-5	1.8-5	1.8-5	1.8-5
(V)	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	0.9	1.5	1.5	1.8	1.8/1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2
Pdiss (mW)	19.8	10.5	3.8	12.15	1.94	3.82	12	5.15	20	16/15	15.8	15.5
CG (dB)	12	23.7	18.3	4.5-3	26.62	14.64	-2.9-3.1	10.2	32	15-25/16.7-26/16.5-25	16.2-23.8/16.1-23.5	16.1-23/16-22.5
NF (dB)	15	11.2	12.4	20.1	6.48	7.23	Nil	6.7	3.4	6.2-8/5.3-7.8/5.2-7.79	5.4-7.7/5.35-7.78	5.6-7.9/5.65-7.8
IIP3 (dBm)	-5.5	-6	-0.9	2.7-3.8	Nil	-15.89	Nil	8.2	-12	-7–1/-5–3/-4– 4	-6–3/-5–2	-6.2–3.5/-5–2
Area (mm^2)	0.9	Nil	0.002	Nil	0.002	Nil	0.056	0.01	0.35	0.9/0.8	0.88	0.86

S: simulation results of the proposed mixer without optimization; S1: simulation results of the proposed mixer with PSO; M1: measurement results of the proposed mixer with PSO; S2: simulation results of the proposed mixer with IPO; M2: measurement results of the proposed mixer with IPO; S3: simulation results of the proposed mixer with GA; M3: measurement results of the proposed mixer with GA.