A 50mW-TX 65mW-RX 60GHz 4-element phased-array transceiver with integrated antennas in 65nm CMOS

Author

Lingkai Kong ; Dongjin Seo ; Alon, Elad

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2013

Firstpage

234

Lastpage

235

Abstract

The 60GHz band has gained great interest as an enabler for multi-Gb/s wireless links. Recent efforts [1-4] have focused on reducing transceiver power to drive adoption of 60GHz in mobile devices. To further accelerate this adoption, the cost of current mm-Wave solutions should also be reduced. Especially for short range designs (<;1m), overall cost may be dominated by packaging and testing. This paper therefore presents a low-power 60GHz CMOS 4-element phased-array QPSK transceiver with integrated slot-loop antennas. Utilizing such antennas as well as circuit stacking techniques, the transceiver achieves 10.4Gb/s with a range of >40cm in all directions while consuming only 115mW (TX+RX).

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; antenna phased arrays; loop antennas; low-power electronics; millimetre wave integrated circuits; mobile handsets; quadrature phase shift keying; radio links; radio transceivers; slot antennas; bit rate 10.4 Gbit/s; circuit stacking techniques; frequency 60 GHz; integrated slot-loop antennas; low-power CMOS 4-element phased-array QPSK transceiver; multi-Gb-s wireless links; power 115 mW; power 50 mW; power 65 mW; short range designs; transceiver power reduction; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; CMOS integrated circuits; Mixers; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4515-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487714

Filename

6487714