SiGe BiCMOS for Analog, High-Speed Digital and Millimetre-Wave Applications Beyond 50 GHz

Author

Voinigescu, S.P. ; Chalvatzis, T. ; Yau, K.H.K. ; Hazneci, A. ; Garg, A. ; Shahramian, S. ; Yao, T. ; Gordon, M. ; Dickson, T.O. ; Laskin, E. ; Nicolson, S.T. ; Carusone, A.C. ; Tchoketch-Kebir, L. ; Yuryevich, O. ; Ng, G. ; Lai, B. ; Liu, P.

Author_Institution

Dept of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper explores the application of SiGe BiCMOS technology to mm-wave transceiver with analog and digital signal processing. A review of 10 - 80Gb/s SERDES performance across 3 SiGe BiCMOS and CMOS technology nodes reveals remarkable similarities with digital CMOS IC scaling and points to the benefits of a SiGe BiCMOS roadmap. Examples of 40-Gb/s equalizers, track-and-hold amplifiers and ADCs with mm-wave sampling clocks are provided, along with GHz-range opamp filters and 65-GHz wireless transceivers. Automotive radar and imaging applications in the 80 -100 GHz range are also briefly discussed

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; analogue-digital conversion; equalisers; millimetre wave integrated circuits; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; road vehicle radar; sample and hold circuits; transceivers; 10 to 80 Gbit/s; 80 to 100 GHz; BiCMOS; CMOS technology; SERDES performance; SiGe; analog application; high-speed digital application; millimetre-wave applications; millimetre-wave transceiver; signal processing; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Digital signal processing; Equalizers; Germanium silicon alloys; Radar tracking; Silicon germanium; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 2006

Conference_Location

Maastricht

ISSN

1088-9299

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0458-4

Electronic_ISBN

1088-9299

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.2006.311161

Filename

4100229