Title :
GaAs MMIC chipset for 17/18 GHz indoor radio LANs
Author :
Nam, S. ; Karacaoglu, U. ; Oztek-Yerli, C ; Robertson, I.D.
Author_Institution :
MMIC Research Team, King´´s College London, Strand, London, U.K, WC2R 2LS. Tel. 0171 873 2523, Fax 0171 873 2081, E-mail: nam@orion.eee.kcl.ac.uk
Abstract :
The design, fabrication and measurement of a transceiver chipset for 17/18 GHz indoor radio LANs are presented. The transmitter employs direct carrier modulation and comprises a VCO and M-ary PSK modulator in one chip and a separate HPA/preamplifier chip. The receiver is a single-chip downconverter with a LNA, VCO, mixer and IF amplifier. The receiver has 18.5+1.5 dB conversion gain and a noise figure of 4.1 dB. The HPA shows good linearity with saturated output power of 23dBm, which is appropriate for indoor requirements at 17/18 GHz. The chips were fabricated using the GMMT (Caswell) F20 MESFET foundry process.
Keywords :
Fabrication; Gallium arsenide; Indoor radio communication; MMICs; Phase shift keying; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Semiconductor device measurement; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 1996. 26th European
Conference_Location :
Prague, Czech Republic
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.1996.337736
