Transforming RF and mm-Wave CMOS circuits

Author

Niknejad, Ali M. ; Chowdhury, Debopriyo

Author_Institution

Berkeley Wireless Res. Center, Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

28-30 April 2009

Firstpage

138

Lastpage

141

Abstract

This papers highlights the design of RF and mm-wave building blocks which achieve high performance despite implementation in low-voltage digital CMOS technology. It is shown that integrated circuit transformers can greatly aid the design of such circuits by serving many roles, such as impedance matching, AC coupling, voltage combining, and converting signals from single-ended to differential form. Design, layout, and simulation strategies will be reviewed and several key power amplifier (PA) building blocks will be demonstrated.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; low-power electronics; millimetre wave power amplifiers; radiofrequency amplifiers; transformers; AC coupling; RF building blocks; impedance matching; integrated circuit transformers; low-voltage digital CMOS technology; mm-wave CMOS circuits; power amplifier design; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Inductors; Insertion loss; Magnetic resonance; Parasitic capacitance; Radio frequency; Resonant frequency; Transformers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, Automation and Test, 2009. VLSI-DAT '09. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2781-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2782-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VDAT.2009.5158114

Filename

5158114