A 60-GHz 38-pJ/bit 3.5-Gb/s 90-nm CMOS OOK Digital Radio

Author

Juntunen, Eric ; Leung, Matthew Chung-Hin ; Barale, Francesco ; Rachamadugu, Arun ; Yeh, David A. ; Perumana, Bevin George ; Sen, Padmanava ; Dawn, Debasis ; Sarkar, Saikat ; Pinel, Stephane ; Laskar, Joy

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

58

Issue

2

fYear

2010

Firstpage

348

Lastpage

355

Abstract

A 60-GHz fully integrated bits-in bits-out on-off keying (OOK) digital radio has been designed in a standard 90-nm CMOS process technology. The transmitter provides 2 dBm of output power at a 3.5-Gb/s data rate while consuming 156 mW of dc power, including the on-chip 60-GHz frequency synthesizer. A pulse-shaping filter has been integrated to support high data rates while maintaining spectral efficiency. The receiver performs direct-conversion noncoherent demodulation at data rates up to 3.5 Gb/s while consuming 108 mW of dc power, for a total average transceiver energy consumption of 38 pJ/bit in time division duplex operation. To the best of the authors´ knowledge, this is the lowest energy per bit reported to date in the 60-GHz band for fully integrated single-chip CMOS OOK radios.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; demodulation; digital radio; frequency synthesizers; time division multiplexing; CMOS OOK digital radio; CMOS process technology; direct-conversion noncoherent demodulation; fully integrated bits-in bits-out on-off keying digital radio; fully integrated single-chip CMOS OOK radio; on-chip frequency synthesizer; pulse-shaping filter; spectral efficiency; time division duplex operation; total average transceiver energy consumption; 60 GHz; 90 nm; CMOS; digital radio; on–off keying (OOK); transceiver;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2009.2037867

Filename

5392977