A dual-band triple-mode SoC for 802.11a/b/g Embedded WLAN in 90nm CMOS

Author

Shirvani, Alireza ; Cheung, Derek ; Tsang, Randy ; Jamal, Shafiq ; Cho, Thomas ; Jin, Xiaodong ; Song, Yonghua

Author_Institution

Marvell Semicond., Santa Clara, CA

fYear

2006

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

92

Abstract

An 802.11a/b/g-compliant SoC integrates a WLAN system, comprising a dual-band RF transceiver and PHY, MAC and ARM processor units, in 90nm CMOS. Challenges of SoC integration in 90nm CMOS and the mitigation techniques are discussed, along with circuit design techniques to optimize RF performance in 90nm. For 54Mb/s signals, the receiver sensitivity is -75dBm/-72dBm at 2.4GHz/5GHz, where the transmitter achieves an EVM of -35dB/-32dB at 0dBm output power

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; IEEE standards; microprocessor chips; system-on-chip; transceivers; wireless LAN; 2.4 GHz; 5 GHz; 54 Mbit/s; 802.11a/b/g; 90 nm; ARM processor units; CMOS integrated circuit; MAC processor units; PHY processor units; dual-band RF transceiver; dual-band triple-mode SoC; embedded WLAN; CMOS process; Circuit synthesis; Design optimization; Dual band; Physical layer; Power generation; Radio frequency; Transceivers; Transmitters; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006. CICC '06. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0075-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0076-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2006.320983

Filename

4114915