A 90nm CMOS low-power 60GHz transceiver with integrated baseband circuitry

Author

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

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

fYear

2009

Firstpage

314

Abstract

This paper presents key design techniques and challenges in implementing one of the first integrated, energy-efficient 60 GHz transceivers including baseband circuitry. The 90 nm CMOS direct-conversion design operates from a 1.2 V supply and has been optimized for 5-to-10 Gb/s QPSK modulation centered at 60 GHz. To achieve power consumption of 170 mW in transmit mode and 138 mW in receive mode, this design leverages co-integration and optimization of mm-wave and mixed-signal baseband circuits.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MIMIC; integrated circuit design; low-power electronics; transceivers; QPSK modulation; bit rate 5 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s; direct-conversion design; frequency 60 GHz; mixed-signal baseband circuit; power 138 mW; power 170 mW; power consumption; receive mode; size 90 nm; transmit mode; voltage 1.2 V; Antenna measurements; Baseband; Circuits; Electrostatic discharge; Phase locked loops; Power generation; Protection; Semiconductor device measurement; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers, 2009. ISSCC 2009. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3458-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2009.4977434

Filename

4977434