Design strategy for high performance 60 GHz CMOS power amplifiers

Author

Hamidian, Amin ; Malignaggi, Andrea ; Boeck, Georg

Author_Institution

Microwave Eng. Lab., Berlin Inst. of Technol., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

1-3 June 2014

Firstpage

417

Lastpage

420

Abstract

This paper presents a systematic design procedure for compact and high performance millimeter-wave power amplifiers based on distributed-transformers. For this purpose scalable models for on-chip transformers and power combiners are introduced. The developed scalable models helped achieving a much faster design reiteration time and higher performances for the power amplifier. Finally, using these models a 60 GHz CMOS power amplifier has been designed. The measured results of the power amplifier show 17 dB gain, 18 dBm saturated output power, 15 dBm output power at 1 dB compression point with 0.5 mm² chip size.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; integrated circuit design; millimetre wave power amplifiers; power combiners; transformers; frequency 60 GHz; gain 1 dB; gain 17 dB; millimeter-wave CMOS power amplifier; on-chip distributed-transformer; power combiner; systematic design procedure; CMOS integrated circuits; Circuit faults; Gain; Insertion loss; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor device measurement; Transistors; 90 nm LP CMOS technology; DAT; Millimeter-wave; power amplifier; transformer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3862-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2014.6851756

Filename

6851756