Title :
mm-Waves design trends in BiCMOS technology
Author :
Taris, T. ; Severino, R. ; Deval, Y. ; Begueret, J.B.
Author_Institution :
IMS Lab., Talence
Abstract :
mm-waves building block design is the meeting point of distributed and RF analog techniques. After reviewing the skills of a 130 nm mm-Wave dedicated back-end BiCMOS technology, this paper investigates these two design methodologies in an 80 GHz cascode differential LNA implementation. A third version of the circuit taking advantage of both approaches is finally proposed. Operating under 2.5 V and consuming 17 mA it exhibits a 20 dB maximum gain at 79 GHz, and performs 5.4 dB Noise Figure.
Keywords :
BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; low noise amplifiers; millimetre wave integrated circuits; BiCMOS technology; RF analog techniques; cascode differential LNA; distributed analog techniques; mm-waves design; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Coplanar waveguides; Data communication; Design methodology; Impedance; Laboratories; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Scattering parameters; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems and TAISA Conference, 2008. NEWCAS-TAISA 2008. 2008 Joint 6th International IEEE Northeast Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2331-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2332-3
DOI :
10.1109/NEWCAS.2008.4606399
