Investigation of CMOS technology for 60-GHz applications

This paper investigates the feasibility of the latest CMOS technology for the implementation of the emerging 60-GHz wireless applications. The double-conversion zero-IF receiver architecture is proposed for the evaluation. From the recently reported work of wireless front-end building blocks, most of the components required in the proposed 60-GHz receiver have been demonstrated in CMOS technology. It is very promising that the improved characteristics of the scaled CMOS technology, down to 0.13 μm or below, are viable for the 60-GHz wireless front-end ICs.