An integrated 60GHz low power two-chip wireless system based on IEEE802.11ad standard

Author

Kaixue Ma ; Shouxian Mou ; Mahalingam, Nagarajan ; Yisheng Wang ; Thangarasu, Bharatha Kumar ; Jinna Yan ; Ye Wanxin ; Keping Wang ; Wei Meng Lim ; Thin Sek Wong ; Yang Lu ; Wanlan Yang ; Kiat Seng Yeo ; Chin, Francois ; Xiaoming Peng ; Chai, Albert ; Khi

Author_Institution

VIRTUS IC Design Center of Excellence, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2014

fDate

1-6 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents our developed two-chip wireless communication system adhering to the IEEE 802.11ad standards with a baseband IC (BBIC) integrated with a low power 60 GHz transceiver SOC (RFIC) and antennas. The novel low power 60GHz RFIC using a sub-harmonic sliding-IF scheme is fully integrated based on low cost SiGe 0.18 um BiCMOS process. The BBIC uses an adaptive time domain equalizer rather than the commonly used frequency domain equalizer to lower the requirements on power consumption.

Keywords

radio networks; system-on-chip; wireless LAN; BBIC; IEEE802.11ad standard; SOC RFIC; adaptive time domain equalizer; baseband IC; frequency domain equalizer; low power two chip wireless system; subharmonic sliding-IF scheme; two-chip wireless communication system; CMOS integrated circuits; Indexes; Microwave technology; Noise measurement; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Silicon germanium; 60GHz; Antenna; Baseband IC (BBIC); IEEE802.11ad; Millimeter-wave; RFIC; System-On-Chip (SOC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848242

Filename

6848242