Title :
mm-Wave Silicon ICs: Challenges and Opportunities
Author_Institution :
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena
Abstract :
Millimeter-waves offer promising opportunities and interesting challenges to silicon integrated circuit and system designers. These challenges go beyond standard circuit design questions and span a broader range of topics including wave propagation, antenna design, and communication channel capacity limits. It is only meaningful to evaluate the benefits and shortcoming of silicon-based mm-wave integrated circuits in this broader context. This paper reviews some of these issues and presents several solutions to them.
Keywords :
integrated circuit design; millimetre wave integrated circuits; monolithic integrated circuits; antenna design; communication channel capacity; millimeter waves; mm-wave silicon ICs; silicon integrated circuit design; wave propagation; Antennas and propagation; Channel capacity; Circuit synthesis; Communication channels; Communication standards; Context; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave propagation; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2007. CICC '07. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1623-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1623-3
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.2007.4405837
