Generation of Gbit/s modulated millimeter wave signals for measurement

Author

Tytgat, Maarten ; Steyaert, Michiel ; Reynaert, Patrick

Author_Institution

ESAT-MICAS, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2011

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

906

Lastpage

909

Abstract

A new method for generation of phase and frequency modulated signals with bit rates of over 4 Gbit/s at millimeter wave frequencies is presented. This method was successfully applied for the measurement of a 200 GHz 90 nm CMOS downconverter. Measured eye diagrams for BPSK and constellation diagrams for BPSK and QPSK are shown. The proposed method is applicable for millimeter source modules from 50 GHz up to 500 GHz. To the author´s knowledge, this is the first time that Gbit/s modulation is demonstrated using millimeter source modules.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; frequency modulation; millimetre wave generation; quadrature phase shift keying; CMOS downconverter; bit rates; constellation diagrams; frequency 200 GHz; frequency modulated signals; modulated millimeter wave signals; Binary phase shift keying; CMOS integrated circuits; Frequency measurement; Frequency modulation; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave technology; Mixers; frequency modulation; millimeter wave communication; millimeter wave measurements; phase modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2011 41st European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-235-6

Type

conf

Filename

6101684