A low-cost, wide-band 60 GHz down-converter module for multi-gigabit per second wireless communication

Author

Gang Liu ; Ulusoy, A. Cagri ; Trasser, A. ; Schumacher, Hermann

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron Devices & Circuits, Ulm Univ., Ulm, Germany

fYear

2013

Firstpage

349

Lastpage

351

Abstract

This paper presents a low-cost down-converter module for 60 GHz short-range multi-gigabit per second wireless applications. The 60 GHz down-converter IC, consisting of a mixer, a VCO, a frequency doubler and a PLL, is realized in a low-cost SiGe HBT technology and packaged using low-cost substrate material and wire-bonding techniques with compensated interconnect structures. The packaged module shows 2.5 dB conversion gain at 60 GHz and a very wide IF bandwidth of 10 GHz, covering the complete 60 GHz ISM band. The module has been tested in a short range 60 GHz system with up to 2 Gbit/s data rate and error-free transmission have been achieved.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; broadband networks; frequency multipliers; heterojunction bipolar transistors; integrated circuit interconnections; lead bonding; millimetre wave integrated circuits; millimetre wave mixers; millimetre wave oscillators; phase locked loops; voltage-controlled oscillators; IF bandwidth; PLL; VCO; compensated interconnect structure; error-free transmission; frequency 60 GHz; frequency doubler; low-cost SiGe HBT technology; low-cost substrate material; low-cost wide-band down-converter module; mixer; multigigabit per second wireless communication; packaged module; wire-bonding technique; Bandwidth; Gain; Integrated circuits; Radio frequency; Receivers; Substrates; Wireless communication; Millimeter-wave integrated circuits; hetero-junction bipolar transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

2164-2958

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2929-3

Electronic_ISBN

2164-2958

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2013.6486737

Filename

6486737