On-chip antennas in silicon ICs and their application

Author

O, K.K. ; Kim, Kihong ; Floyd, Brian A. ; Mehta, Jesal L. ; Yoon, Hyun ; Hung, Chih-Ming ; Bravo, Dan ; Dickson, Timothy O. ; Guo, Xiaoling ; Li, Ran ; Trichy, Narasimhan ; Caserta, Jim ; Bomstad, Wayne R., II ; Branch, Jason ; Yang, Dong-Jun ; Bohorquez,

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

Volume

52

Issue

7

fYear

2005

fDate

7/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1312

Lastpage

1323

Abstract

The feasibility of integrating antennas and required circuits to form wireless interconnects in foundry digital CMOS technologies has been demonstrated. The key challenges including the effects of metal structures associated with integrated circuits, heat removal, packaging, and interaction between transmitted and received signals, and nearby circuits appear to be manageable. This technology can potentially be applied for implementation of a true single-chip radio for general purpose communication, on-chip and inter-chip data communication systems, RFID tags, RF sensors/radars, and others.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated circuits; data communication equipment; integrated circuit packaging; microwave antennas; BiCMOS; RF radars; RF sensors; RFID tags; Si; clock distribution; digital CMOS technology; inter-chip data communication system; metal structure effect; on-chip antenna; on-chip data communication system; silicon IC; single-chip radio; wireless interconnects; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Data communication; Foundries; Integrated circuit interconnections; Integrated circuit packaging; Integrated circuit technology; RFID tags; Silicon; System-on-a-chip; BiCMOS; CMOS; clock distribution; data communication; on-chip antenna; silicon; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9383

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TED.2005.850668

Filename

1459088