A fully integrated CMOS 60-GHz transceiver for IEEE802.11ad applications

Abstract

A fully integrated 60-GHz transceiver for 802.11ad applications with superior performance in a 90-nm CMOS process versus prior arts is proposed and real based on a field-circuit co-design methodology. The reported transceiver monolithically integrates a receiver, transmitter, PLL Phase-Locked Loop) synthesizer, and LO (Local Oscillator) path based on a sliding-IF architecture. The transceiver supports up to a 16QAM modulation scheme and a data rate of 6 Gbit/s per channel, ZLWK DQ (90 (UURU 9HFWRU 0DJQLWXGH RI ORZHU WKDQ í G% 7KH UHFHLYHU SDWK DFKLHYHV D FRQ¿JXUDEOH FRQYHUVLRQ JDLQ RI a G% DQG D QRLVH ¿JXUH RI G% RYHU a *+] ZKLOH FRQVXPLQJ RQO\ P: RI SRZHU 7KH WUDQVPLWWHU DFKLHYHV D conversion gain of roughly 26 dB, with an output P 1dB RI G%P DQG D VDWXUDWHG RXWSXW SRZHU RI RYHU G%P FRQVXPLQJ mW of power from a 1.2-V supply. The LO path is composed of a 24-GHz PLL, doubler, and a divider chain, as well as an LO distribution network. In closed-loop operation mode, the PLL exhibits an integrated phase error of 3.3º rms (from 100 kHz to 100 MHz) over prescribed frequency bands, and a total power dissipation of only 26 mW. All measured results are rigorously loyal to the simulation.

MmWave Physical Layer Network Modeling and Planning for Fixed Wireless Access Applications

“…New technology nodes, e.g., the 90/65 nm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) process, enable a high cutoff and oscillation frequencies that realize mmWave integrated circuits and transceivers [ 25 ]. Using 12 nm fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) technology, a maximum oscillation frequency of 315 GHz is reported [ 26 ].…”

“…802.11ad networks. In [ 25 ], a 60 GHz transceiver in 90 nm CMOS is presented for IEEE Std. 802.11ad applications based on a sliding intermediate frequency (IF) architecture.…”

In-band full-duplex dual-band transceiver based on single-core multiport architecture

“…To this purpose, typical multiband transceivers consist of independent transmitting and receiving front-end pairs. They are usually based on heterodyne or homodyne architectures [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] , with each front-end pair operating independently via separate local oscillators (LO) at specified frequencies. Unfortunately, these front ends do not share their circuitries.…”