High-speed CMOS DACs and ADCs for broadband communication

Author

Grozing, M. ; Ferenci, Damir ; Lang, Fengkai ; Alpert, Thomas ; Huang, Heng ; Briem, Jochen ; Veigel, Thomas ; Berroth, Manfred

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. & Opt. Commun. Eng. (INT), Univ. Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

2-7 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

High speed DACs and ADCs are key components for mm-wave communication systems that apply spectral efficient modulation formats to achieve date rates up to 100 Gbit/s. CMOS converters enable the integration with a mm-wave front-end and a high-throughput DSP on a low-cost system-on-chip. We present CMOS ADC and DAC prototypes with conversion rates up to 36 GS/s, resolutions between 3 and 6 bit and real-time digital interfaces that enable experimental lab setups with the DSP functions implemented on FPGAs.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; broadband networks; digital signal processing chips; digital-analogue conversion; field programmable gate arrays; millimetre wave integrated circuits; system-on-chip; CMOS ADC; CMOS converters; DSP functions; FPGA; broadband communication; conversion rates; high-speed CMOS DAC; high-throughput DSP; low-cost system-on-chip; mm-wave communication systems; mm-wave front-end; real-time digital interfaces; spectral efficient modulation; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Field programmable gate arrays; OFDM; Real-time systems; Synchronization; System-on-chip; Analog-digital conversion; CMOS integrated circuits; broadband communication; digital-analog conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (IMS), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6177-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697601

Filename

6697601