Analog MMICs for millimeterwave applications based on a commercial 0.14 μm PHEMT technology

Author

Zirath, Herbert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microelectron., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

642

Lastpage

647

Abstract

This paper describe recent results obtained from the MMIC-design activity at Chalmers University. Our goal is to design all circuits needed for the front end of a 60 GHz WLAN and to build a system demonstrator. Issues such as suitable circuit topologies, dc-power consumption, MCM-technologies, circuit area minimization, cost, system design and simulation are important and will be addressed during the project. So far we have designed and experimentally verified a large number of circuits like mm-wave-amplifiers, up and down-converters, frequency multipliers, frequency dividers, VCO´s, and wide band amplifiers. Some results will be shown in this paper

Keywords

HEMT integrated circuits; analogue integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; field effect MMIC; 0.14 micron; 60 GHz; DC power consumption; MCM technology; MM-wave amplifier; PHEMT technology; VCO; WLAN; analog MMIC; circuit area minimization; circuit topology; computer simulation; down-converter; frequency divider; frequency multiplier; millimeter-wave circuit; system design; up-converter; wideband amplifier; Circuits; Current density; Feedback; Frequency conversion; MMICs; Microwave technology; Noise measurement; PHEMTs; Transconductance; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2000 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6435-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2000.925916

Filename

925916