Low-Cost CMOS-Based Receive Modules for 60 GHz Wireless Communication

Author

Wambacq, Piet ; Raczkowski, Kuba ; Ramon, Valéry ; Vasylchenko, Alexander ; Enayati, Amin ; Libois, Michael ; Borremans, Jonathan ; Scheir, Karen ; Bronckers, Stephane ; Bourdoux, André ; Parvais, Bertrand ; Verbruggen, Bob ; Brebels, Steven ; Van Thillo,

Author_Institution

IMEC, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

To enable mass-market applications based on shortrange wireless communication around 60 GHz at datarates above 1 Gbps, cheap implementation technologies are needed. The radios for these applications often use antenna arrays with beamforming to improve the link budget. This work discusses the state-of-the-art on CMOS beamforming architectures and describes the different parts of a wireless link that is built around a four-antenna array on a PCB that also contains 45 nm digital CMOS receiver ICs with beamforming capabilities.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; antenna arrays; array signal processing; digital integrated circuits; printed circuits; radio links; receivers; wireless channels; CMOS beamforming architectures; PCB; digital CMOS receiver IC; four-antenna array; frequency 60 GHz; low-cost CMOS-based receive modules; size 45 nm; wireless communication; wireless link; Array signal processing; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Insertion loss; Noise figure; Phased arrays; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Receiving antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, 2009. CISC 2009. Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Greensboro, NC

ISSN

1550-8781

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5191-3

Electronic_ISBN

1550-8781

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/csics.2009.5315705

Filename

5315705