A 90 nm CMOS Low-Power 60 GHz Transceiver With Integrated Baseband Circuitry

Author

Marcu, Cristian ; Chowdhury, Debopriyo ; Thakkar, Chintan ; Park, Jung-Dong ; Kong, Ling-Kai ; Tabesh, Maryam ; Wang, Yanjie ; Afshar, Bagher ; Gupta, Abhinav ; Arbabian, Amin ; Gambini, Simone ; Zamani, Reza ; Alon, Elad ; Niknejad, Ali M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

44

Issue

12

fYear

2009

Firstpage

3434

Lastpage

3447

Abstract

This paper presents a low power 60 GHz transceiver that includes RF, LO, PLL and BB signal paths integrated into a single chip. The transceiver has been fabricated in a standard 90 nm CMOS process and includes specially designed ESD protection on all mm-wave pads. With a 1.2 V supply the chip consumes 170 mW while transmitting 10 dBm and 138 mW while receiving. Data transmission up to 5 Gb/s on each of I and Q channels has been measured, as has data reception over a 1 m wireless link at 4 Gb/s QPSK with less than 10^-11 BER.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; electrostatic discharge; error statistics; field effect MIMIC; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; millimetre wave amplifiers; millimetre wave receivers; phase locked loops; quadrature phase shift keying; transceivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; BB signal path; BER; CMOS low-power transceiver; ESD protection; I channel; LO signal path; PLL signal path; Q channel; QPSK; RF signal path; bit error rate; bit rate 4 Gbit/s; bit rate 5 Gbit/s; data transmission; frequency 60 GHz; integrated baseband circuitry; local oscillator distribution; low-noise amplifier; mm-wave pads; mm-wave receiver; phase-locked loop; power 138 mW; power 170 mW; size 1 m; size 90 nm; voltage 1.2 V; voltage-controlled oscillator; wireless link; Baseband; CMOS process; Circuits; Data communication; Electrostatic discharge; Phase locked loops; Protection; RF signals; Radio frequency; Transceivers; 60 GHz; CMOS; decision feedback equalizer; direct-conversion transceiver; low-noise amplifier (LNA); millimeter-wave integrated circuits; mixer; phase-locked loop (PLL); power amplifier; voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2009.2032584

Filename

5342367