A Fully Integrated 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Compliant Transceiver for ZigBee Applications

A 0.18mum CMOS low-IF transceiver with integrated baseband processing according to IEEE 802.15.4 is described. The 5.77mm2 die draws 14.7mA (RX) and 15.7mA (TX) while achieving -102dBm RX sensitivity and 3dBm TX power. The differential input 2.4mA RX RF-frontend provides 5.7dB system noise figure