60-GHz Gigabits-Per-Second OOK Modulator With High Output Power in 90-nm CMOS

Author

Lee, Jae Jin ; Park, Chul Soon

Author_Institution

Intell. Radio Eng. Center, Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

58

Issue

5

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

249

Lastpage

253

Abstract

A new architecture for a 60-GHz on- off keying (OOK) modulator with high gain, high on/off isolation, high data rates, and high output power while retaining low direct-current (dc) power dissipation is presented in this brief. The modulator is designed in a 90-nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process by current reuse and a dual-modulation technique and has 28.4-dB high on/off isolation, a gain of 9.9 dB at 60 GHz, and 1.5-dBm high OP1dB with 14.4-mW dc power consumption at the on-state of an OOK baseband signal. A data rate of up to 2 Gb/s has also been measured. The proposed 60-GHz OOK modulator, which can substitute for a power amplifier and an up-conversion mixer in a conventional 60-GHz OOK transmitter, helps make possible wireless multigigabit data transmission within a distance of 1 m using mobile devices with a 60-GHz OOK transceiver.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; field effect MIMIC; millimetre wave mixers; millimetre wave power amplifiers; radio transceivers; CMOS process; OOK modulator; OOK transceiver; OOK transmitter; current reuse; dc power consumption; direct-current power dissipation; dual-modulation; frequency 60 GHz; gain 9.9 dB; mobile devices; on-off keying modulator; power 14.4 mW; power amplifier; size 90 nm; up-conversion mixer; CMOS integrated circuits; Logic gates; Modulation; Power generation; Switches; Transmission line measurements; Transmitters; 60 GHz; 90 nm; Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS); V-band; on–off keying (OOK) modulator; transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1549-7747

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSII.2011.2124890

Filename

5771063