A 16-element phased-array receiver IC for 60-GHz communications in SiGe BiCMOS

Author

Reynolds, Scott K. ; Natarajan, Arun S. ; Tsai, Ming-Da ; Nicolson, Sean ; Zhan, Jing-Hong Conan ; Liu, Duixian ; Kam, Dong G. ; Huang, Oscar ; Valdes-Garcia, Alberto ; Floyd, Brian A.

Author_Institution

IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 May 2010

Firstpage

461

Lastpage

464

Abstract

A 0.12-μm SiGe phased-array Rx IC for beam-steered wireless communication in the 60-GHz band is described. It has 16 RF phase-shifting front-ends with 11° digital phase resolution and hybrid passive-active RF signal combining. It achieves 7.4-7.9 dB NF (not including 12-dB array gain) over the 4 IEEE channels. The IC has a double-conversion superheterodyne Rx core with a maximum of 72 dB of power gain in 1-dB steps, and the on-chip synthesizer achieves <; -90 dBc/Hz Rx phase noise at 1MHz offset. The IC draws 1.8 W at 2.7 V with a die area of 38 mm². It has been packaged with 16 antennas in a 288-pin organic BGA and phased-array beamsteering has been demonstrated, along with 5+ Gb/s wireless links using 16-QAM OFDM.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; beam steering; radiocommunication; receivers; 16-element phased-array receiver IC; 288-pin organic BGA; SiGe; SiGe BiCMOS; bandwidth 60 GHz; beam-steered wireless communication; digital phase resolution; double-conversion superheterodyne Rx core; hybrid passive-active RF signal combining; phased-array beamsteering; power 1.8 W; size 0.12 mum; voltage 2.7 V; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Germanium silicon alloys; Integrated circuit noise; Integrated circuit synthesis; Noise measurement; Radio frequency; Signal resolution; Silicon germanium; Wireless communication; 60 GHz; Phased-arrays; SiGe; beam steering; millimeter-wave; receiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6240-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477306

Filename

5477306