Analysis of RF impairments on EVM performance of the OFDM PHY of IEEE 802.11ad standard

Author

Jin Qin ; Lei Zhang ; Li Zhang ; Yan Wang ; Zhiping Yu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The paper presents a system-level simulation platform supporting both top-down and bottom-up design and verifications based on 802.11ad standard, and EVM degradation on the OFDM PHY due to various RF impairments, such as LO phase noise, PA nonlinearity, I/Q mismatch, and ADC/DAC resolution are simulated and elaborated. The platform has been verified based on the EVM comparison between simulation and measured results. This work provides RF designers with comprehensive system-level and circuit-level overviews of 802.11ad RF transceivers for Gbps wireless communications on a pre-silicon base.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; radio transceivers; wireless LAN; 802.11ad RF transceivers; ADC/DAC resolution; EVM performance; Gbps wireless communications; I/Q mismatch; IEEE 802.11ad standard; LO phase noise; OFDM PHY; PA nonlinearity; RF impairment analysis; circuit level overviews; comprehensive system level; presilicon base; system level simulation platform; Abstracts; Noise; OFDM; Phase shift keying; Radio frequency; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), 2014 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3296-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2014.7021513

Filename

7021513