An Integrated 5 GHz Wideband Quadrature Modem in SiGe: C BiCMOS Technology

Author

Schmalz, K. ; Herzel, F. ; Piz, M.

Author_Institution

IHP, Frankfurt

fYear

2006

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

361

Lastpage

364

Abstract

This paper presents a wideband I/Q upconverter and an I/Q downconverter for the 5 GHz band, which are integrated with a programmable 5 GHz phase-locked loop for I/Q generation. The quadrature signals are derived from a 10 GHz CMOS VCO followed by a bipolar frequency divider. The image rejection of the upconverter is as low as -38 dBc for an input frequency of 100 MHz. Phase noise at 1 MHz at the upconverter output is below -112 dBc/Hz. The two chips were produced in a 0.25 mum SiGe BiCMOS technology. They will be part of an integrated heterodyne 60 GHz wideband transceiver with 1 Gbit/s data rate

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; bipolar MMIC; frequency dividers; modems; phase locked loops; phase noise; programmable circuits; transceivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.25 micron; 1 Gbit/s; 1 MHz; 10 GHz; 100 MHz; 5 GHz; 60 GHz; BiCMOS technology; CMOS VCO; I-Q downconverter; SiGe:C; bipolar frequency divider; modem; phase noise; programmable phase-locked loop; quadrature signal; transceiver; voltage-controlled oscillator; wideband I-Q upconverter; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Frequency conversion; Germanium silicon alloys; Modems; Phase locked loops; Phase noise; Silicon germanium; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wideband; SiGe BiCMOS; quadrature downconverter; quadrature upconverter; wideband transceiver; wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology, 2006. The 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-5-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECWT.2006.280512

Filename

4057515