Design of Millimeter-Wave CMOS Radios: A Tutorial

Author

Razavi, Behzad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

Volume

56

Issue

1

fYear

2009

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

16

Abstract

This paper deals with the challenges in the design of millimeter-wave CMOS radios and describes circuit and architecture techniques that lead to compact, low-power transceivers. Candidate topologies for building blocks such as low-noise amplifiers, mixers, oscillators, and frequency dividers are presented. Also, a number of radio architectures that relax the generation, division, and distribution of the local oscillator signal are reviewed. Last, integration issues for transmit and receive paths and for multiple beamforming transceivers are addressed.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; frequency dividers; low noise amplifiers; millimetre wave oscillators; mixers (circuits); transceivers; compact transceivers; frequency dividers; local oscillator signal; low-noise amplifiers; low-power transceivers; millimeter-wave CMOS radios; mixers; multiple beamforming transceivers; Array signal processing; Circuit topology; Frequency conversion; Local oscillators; Low-noise amplifiers; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave technology; Signal generators; Transceivers; Tutorial; 60-GHz band; Low-noise amplifiers; Miller divider; millimeter-wave circuits; mixers; oscillators; transceiver architectures;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1549-8328

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSI.2008.931648

Filename

4774072