Amplifiers And Signal Generation Circuits for 60GHz Wireless Broadband System

Author

Riska, J. ; Karkkäinen, M. ; Kangaslahti, P. ; Porra, V.

Author_Institution

Electronic Circuit Design Laboratory, Institute of Radio Communications, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O.Box 3000, FIN-02150 HUT, Finland. Phone: +358-9-451-2276, Fax: +358-9-451 2269, E-mail: jriska@ecdl.hut.fi

fYear

2000

fDate

Oct. 2000

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A set of monolithic microwave integrated circuits for millimeter-wave radio front end was developed. The circuits operate in the 60-63 GHz frequency range and have been fabricated with a commercially available 0.15-Â¿m GaAs PHEMT technology. Designed, fabricated and measured circuits reported here are a general-purpose medium power amplifier, a low noise amplifier and signal generation circuits for generation of the 56 GHz local oscillator signal. Excellent measured performance was obtained. The MPA delivers 16 dBm of output power along with a gain of 12 dB. Measured LNA noise figure at 60 GHz is 5 dB and the gain is 18 dB. The mixer in up-conversion configuration exhibited 12 dB conversion loss.

Keywords

Broadband amplifiers; Gain; Low-noise amplifiers; MMICs; Microwave integrated circuits; Monolithic integrated circuits; Noise measurement; Power generation; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European

Conference_Location

Paris, France

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMA.2000.338598

Filename

4139933