Single-element and phased-array transceiver chipsets for 60-ghz Gb/s communications

Author

Valdes-Garcia, Alberto ; Reynolds, Scott ; Natarajan, Arun ; Kam, Dong ; Liu, Duixian ; Lai, Jie-Wei ; Huang, Yen-Lin Oscar ; Chen, Ping-Yu ; Tsai, Ming-Da ; Zhan, Jing-Hong Conan ; Nicolson, Sean ; Floyd, Brian

Volume

49

Issue

4

fYear

2011

fDate

4/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

131

Abstract

This article summarizes the development of mature and highly integrated SiGe BiCMOS ICs for gigabit-per-second communications according to the requirements of the IEEE 802.15.3c and 802.11.ad-draft standards. A single-element transceiver chipset for point-to-point communications is described with emphasis on a feature-rich yet compact 60-GHz receiver. Next, a 16-element phased-array transceiver chipset for non-line-of-sight communications is described, with emphasis on a new power-efficient phased-array transmitter. Examples of gigabit-per-second line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight link experiments are provided, and system-level implementation trade-offs are discussed.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; field effect MIMIC; millimetre wave receivers; radio links; radio transceivers; wireless LAN; BiCMOS integrated circuit; IEEE 802.11 standards; IEEE 802.15.3c standards; SiGe; bit rate 60 Gbit/s; compact receiver; frequency 60 GHz; gigabit-per-second communications; nonline-of-sight communications; phased-array transceiver chipsets; phased-array transmitter; point-to-point communications; single-element transceiver chipsets; Active filters; Arrays; Frequency modulation; Receivers; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2011.5741156

Filename

5741156