A Dual-Band CMOS MIMO Radio SoC for IEEE 802.11n Wireless LAN

Author

Zargari, Masoud ; Nathawad, Lalitkumar Y. ; Samavati, Hirad ; Mehta, Srenik S. ; Kheirkhahi, Alireza ; Chen, Phoebe ; Gong, Ke ; Vakili-Amini, Babak ; Hwang, Justin A. ; Chen, Shuo-Wei Mike ; Terrovitis, Manolis ; Kaczynski, Brian J. ; Limotyrakis, Sotiri

Author_Institution

Atheros Commun., Irvine, CA

Volume

43

Issue

12

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2882

Lastpage

2895

Abstract

An 802.11n-draft-compliant 2times2, 2-stream MIMO radio SoC, incorporating two dual-band RF transceivers, analog baseband filters, data converters, digital PHY and MAC, and a PCI Express interface, has been integrated in a standard 0.13- mum digital CMOS technology with a die area of 36 mm². The receiver achieves noise figures of 4 dB and 6 dB, respectively, at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. The transmitter EVM for a 2-stream, 40-MHz-bandwidth 64-QAM OFDM signal is - 31 dBc at 2.4 GHz and -8 dBm output power and -31.5 dBc at 5 GHz and - 4 dBm output power.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; system-on-chip; wireless LAN; 64-QAM OFDM signal; IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN; MAC; PCI express interface; analog baseband filters; bandwidth 40 MHz; data converters; digital CMOS technology; digital PHY; dual-band CMOS MIMO radio SoC; dual-band RF transceivers; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; noise figure 4 dB; noise figure 6 dB; size 0.13 mum; transmitter EVM; Analog-digital conversion; Baseband; CMOS technology; Digital filters; Dual band; MIMO; Power generation; Radio frequency; Transceivers; Wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11n; MIMO; OFDM; RC filter; RF transceiver; frequency synthesizer; low noise amplifier; passive mixer; power amplifier; wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2008.2005742

Filename

4684645