• DocumentCode
    3466784
  • Title

    TX and RX Front-Ends for 60GHz Band in 90nm Standard Bulk CMOS

  • Author

    Tanomura, Masahiro ; Hamada, Yasuhiro ; Kishimoto, Shuya ; Ito, Masaharu ; Orihashi, Naoyuki ; Maruhashi, Kenichi ; Shimawaki, Hidenori

  • Author_Institution
    NEC, Otsu
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    3-7 Feb. 2008
  • Firstpage
    558
  • Lastpage
    635
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the design of a mm-wave power amplifier PA with reliability considerations for hot carrier injection (HCI) degradation. A 60GHz-band single-chip transmitter front- end with an output power of 6dBm for 2.6 Gb/s QPSK modulation and a single-chip receiver front-end are implemented in a standard IV 90 nm CMOS technology.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; hot carriers; millimetre wave power amplifiers; quadrature phase shift keying; QPSK modulation; bit rate 2.6 Gbit/s; bulk CMOS; frequency 60 GHz; hot carrier injection degradation; millimeter-wave power amplifier; reliability considerations; single-chip receiver front-end; single-chip transmitter front- end; size 90 nm; Demodulation; Gain measurement; Impedance matching; Power generation; Power measurement; Q measurement; Quadrature phase shift keying; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Radiofrequency amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2010-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2011-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523305
  • Filename
    4523305