A fully integrated homodyne upconverter MMIC in SiGe:C for 60 GHz wireless applications

Author

Forstner, H.P. ; Ortner, Markus ; Verweyen, Ludger

Author_Institution

Infineon Technol. AG, Neubiberg, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

132

Abstract

A fully integrated transmitter MMIC manufactured in a 200 GHz SiGe:C production technology is presented. To simplify the analog frontend, the fully differential design is based on a homodyne architecture. It comprises polyphase filters, a Gilbert-based complex upconversion mixer and an active signal combiner followed by a linear power amplifier. The total measured upconversion gain is 27 dB. With a maximum linear output power of 14 dBm, the complete circuit draws a current of 150 mA from a single 3.3 V supply. The MMIC permits operation in the 57 to 64 GHz band and requires no chip-external circuitry.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; MIMIC; active networks; filters; millimetre wave mixers; millimetre wave power amplifiers; radio transmitters; Gilbert based complex upconversion mixer; SiGe:C; active signal combiner; analog frontend; current 150 mA; frequency 57 GHz to 64 GHz; fully differential design; fully integrated homodyne upconverter MMIC; fully integrated transmitter MMIC; gain 27 dB; homodyne architecture; linear power amplifier; polyphase filter; voltage 3.3 V; wireless applications; Gain; Mixers; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Transmitters; 60 GHz; SiGe:C; Transmitter; linear power amplifier; microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC); modulator; transceiver; upconverter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), 2011 IEEE 11th Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8060-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIRF.2011.5719318

Filename

5719318