A low power 60GHz OOK transceiver system in 90nm CMOS with innovative on-chip AMC antenna

Author

Lin, Fujiang ; Brinkhoff, James ; Kang, Kai ; Pham, Duy Dong ; Yuan, Xiaojun

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res. (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2009

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

349

Lastpage

352

Abstract

Building on an efficient active and passive device modeling strategy, a 60 GHz OOK transceiver system including on-chip antenna in 90 nm CMOS is designed. The key features of the circuits are small power consumption and size. With the modulator connected to an innovative artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) on-chip antenna, free space transmission at 2 Gb/s is demonstrated. Also, an on-chip psuedo-link demonstrates 1 Gb/s transmission, using only 26 pJ/bit for the modulator and 6 pJ/bit for the demodulator. The receiver consists of on-chip antenna, LNA with 20 dB gain & 5.7 dB noise figure, detector and limiting amplifier. Recovery of a 1.5 Gb/s NRZ signal is demonstrated.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; antennas; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; millimetre wave integrated circuits; transceivers; RF modeling; active device modeling strategy; amplitude shift keying; artificial magnetic conductor; bit rate 1 Gbit/s; bit rate 1.5 Gbit/s; bit rate 2 Gbit/s; free space transmission; frequency 60 GHz; gain 20 dB; limiting amplifier; low noise amplifier; low power OOK transceiver system; millimeter-wave CMOS; modems; noise figure 5.7 dB; on-chip AMC antenna; on-chip psuedo-link; passive device modeling strategy; size 90 nm; Buildings; Circuits; Conductors; Energy consumption; Magnetic modulators; Power system modeling; Semiconductor device modeling; System-on-a-chip; Transceivers; Transmitting antennas; Millimeter-wave CMOS; RF modeling; amplitude-shift keying; artificial magnetic conductor; modems; on-chip antenna and system on chip; scalable models; transceiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2009. A-SSCC 2009. IEEE Asian

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4433-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4434-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSCC.2009.5357167

Filename

5357167