Abstract
EEE, Hooman Darabi , Senior Member , IEEE, John C. Leete , Member , IEEE,
Xinyu Chen, Member , IEEE, Kevin Juan , Member , IEEE, and Ahmad Y azdi, Member , IEEE
Abstract—Properties of the current-driven passive mixer are ex-
plored to maximize its performance in a zero-IF receiver. Since
there is no reverse isolation between the RF and baseband sides
of the mixer, the mixer reflects the baseband impedance to the RF
and vice versa through simple frequency shifting. It is also shown
that in an IQ d