An extremely low consumption, 53mW, 65nm CMOS transmitter for 60 GHz UWB applications

Author

Ercoli, Mariano ; Dragomirescu, Daniela ; Belot, Didier ; Plana, Robert

Author_Institution

LAAS, Toulouse, France

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 June 2012

Firstpage

463

Lastpage

466

Abstract

An extremely low power transmitter based on fully differential architecture is presented. The design based on the maximum energy efficiency optimization of each block, yields state of the art RF performances with a record low power consumption. The transmitter shows a maximal gain of +5 dB at 60 GHz with -3.5 dBm of output power at the 1dB compression point. The saturated output power is 0.2 dBm. The frequency span for the VCO is from 56 to 59 GHz. The total power dissipation for the transmitter is reduced to 53 mW with a bias voltage of 1.2 V.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; millimetre wave oscillators; radio transmitters; voltage-controlled oscillators; CMOS transmitter; UWB applications; VCO; frequency 56 GHz to 59 GHz; frequency 60 GHz; maximum energy efficiency optimization; power 53 mW; size 65 nm; voltage 1.2 V; CMOS integrated circuits; Mixers; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Transistors; Voltage-controlled oscillators; 60 GHz; CMOS; Low Power; Passive Mixer; Transmitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0413-9

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2012.6242322

Filename

6242322