20.1-mW 8-Gbps UWB-IR millimeter-wave transmitter using an OOK pulse modulator based on CMOS inverters

Author

Nakano, Shunsuke ; Katsurai, Hiroaki ; Togashi, Minoru ; Koizumi, Hirotaka ; Nogawa, Masafumi

Author_Institution

Microsyst. Integration Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

1-5 June 2014

Firstpage

2696

Lastpage

2699

Abstract

We propose a low-power millimeter-wave ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) transmitter using an on/off keying (OOK) pulse modulator for wireless connection or dielectric-waveguide interconnects. To achieve low-power consumption, we use a low-power OOK pulse modulator consisting of only four CMOS inverters and passive elements. The proposed transmitter was fabricated in 65-nm CMOS technology. It exhibits the maximum data rate of 8 Gbps, output power of -15.6 dBm, power consumption of 20.1 mW, and power efficiency of 2.5 mW/Gbps at an operating frequency of 50 GHz.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; dielectric waveguides; invertors; millimetre wave devices; pulse modulation; radio transmitters; radiofrequency interconnections; 65-nm CMOS technology; CMOS Inverters; UWB-IR millimeter-wave transmitter; bit rate 8 Gbit/s; dielectric-waveguide interconnects; frequency 50 GHz; low-power OOK pulse modulator; low-power consumption; low-power millimeter-wave ultrawideband impulse radio transmitter; on-off keying pulse modulator; operating frequency; passive elements; power 20.1 mW; power consumption; power efficiency; wireless connection; Band-pass filters; CMOS integrated circuits; Millimeter wave technology; Modulation; Power demand; Radio transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Melbourne VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3431-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2014.6865729

Filename

6865729