D-band CMOS transmitter and receiver for multi-giga-bit/sec wireless data link

Author

Xu, Zhiwei ; Gu, Qun Jane ; Wu, Yi-Cheng ; Tang, Adrian ; Lin, Yu-Ling ; Chen, Ho-Hsian ; Jou, Chewnpu ; Chang, Mau-Chung Frank

Author_Institution

EE Dept., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present the design and test results for D-band CMOS transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) for ultra-high speed and short distance data communications. The Tx/Rx employs modulation/de-modulation based on Amplitude-Shift Keying (ASK) to facilitate a non-coherent data link without power-hungry PLL, data converters, and complex DSP. The Tx consists of a wideband 131~140GHz VCO along with an On/Off key controlled power amplifier to achieve >90% ASK modulation; the Rx consists of a digital controlled LNA, an envelope detector (ED) and a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) to achieve >60dB dynamic range. Both Tx and Rx are implemented in 65nm CMOS and occupy an active area of 0.03mm²/0.12mm². Test results validate linkage data rates up to 2.5Gbps at the carrier frequency of 140GHz with Tx/Rx power consumption of 115mW/120mW, respectively.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; data communication; demodulation; power amplifiers; receivers; transmitters; voltage-controlled oscillators; D-band CMOS receiver; D-band CMOS transmitter; VCO; amplitude-shift keying modulation; data converter; demodulation; frequency 131 GHz to 140 GHz; multigiga-bit/sec wireless data link; noncoherent data; on/off key controlled power amplifier; power 115 mW to 120 mW; short distance data communication; size 65 nm; ultra-high speed data communication; CMOS integrated circuits; Modulation; Power amplifiers; Resonant frequency; Stacking; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

0886-5930

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5758-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2010.5617617

Filename

5617617