A 46-GHz Direct Wide Modulation Bandwidth ASK Modulator in 0.13-μm CMOS Technology

Author

Chang, Hong-Yeh ; Lei, Ming-Fong ; Lin, Chin-Shen ; Cho, Yi-Hsien ; Tsai, Zuo-Min ; Wang, Huei

Author_Institution

Nat. Central Univ., Taoyuan

Volume

17

Issue

9

fYear

2007

Firstpage

691

Lastpage

693

Abstract

A 46-GHz direct wide modulation bandwidth amplitude shift keying (ASK) modulator with an embedded voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is proposed in this letter. This circuit is fabricated using a standard commercial bulk 0.13-mum CMOS technology and exhibits a modulation bandwidth wider than 1 GHz with a chip size of 390 times 480 mum². The recovered time-domain waveform shows a very good eye-pattern opening. To the best of the authors´ knowledge, this is the first direct ASK modulator with an embedded VCO in the millimeter-wave regime using CMOS processes.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; modulators; time-domain analysis; voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS technology; VCO; amplitude shift keying; direct wide modulation bandwidth ASK modulator; eye-pattern opening; frequency 46 GHz; size 0.13 mum; time-domain waveform; voltage controlled oscillator; Amplitude modulation; Amplitude shift keying; Bandwidth; Baseband; CMOS technology; MMICs; Millimeter wave technology; Signal to noise ratio; Switches; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Amplitude shift keying (ASK); CMOS; direct conversion; millimeter wave; modulator; voltage controlled oscillator (VCO);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2007.903465

Filename

4295114