Title :
Transforming RF and mm-Wave CMOS circuits
Author :
Niknejad, Ali M. ; Chowdhury, Debopriyo
Author_Institution :
Berkeley Wireless Res. Center, Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
This papers highlights the design of RF and mm-wave building blocks which achieve high performance despite implementation in low-voltage digital CMOS technology. It is shown that integrated circuit transformers can greatly aid the design of such circuits by serving many roles, such as impedance matching, AC coupling, voltage combining, and converting signals from single-ended to differential form. Design, layout, and simulation strategies will be reviewed and several key power amplifier (PA) building blocks will be demonstrated.
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; low-power electronics; millimetre wave power amplifiers; radiofrequency amplifiers; transformers; AC coupling; RF building blocks; impedance matching; integrated circuit transformers; low-voltage digital CMOS technology; mm-wave CMOS circuits; power amplifier design; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Capacitors; Inductors; Insertion loss; Magnetic resonance; Parasitic capacitance; Radio frequency; Resonant frequency; Transformers;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Design, Automation and Test, 2009. VLSI-DAT '09. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hsinchu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2781-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2782-6
DOI :
10.1109/VDAT.2009.5158114
