A high-performance WiFi/WiMAX multi-com RFIC in 90nm CMOS

Author

Grosglick, Uri ; Kravitz, Lior ; Ben-Haim, David ; Mukatel, Tsvika ; Zur, Sarit ; Goldberger, Eyal ; Gordon, Meir ; Horovitz, Gil

Author_Institution

Intel Corp., Petah Tikva, Israel

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We present in this article an industry-first multi-com RFIC, combining a dual-band 802.11n radio (WiFi) and a triple-band 802.16e (WiMAX) radio on the same die. The WiFi radio supports up to 3 Ã— 3 MIMO rank, and the WiMAX radio supports up to 1 Ã— 2 MIMO. This highly-integrated direct-conversion RFIC features an integrated fractional-N synthesizer, non-harmonic frequency generation, integrated LNAs and PA drivers, and baseband chains shared by both TX and RX chains. Calibration circuits and control flexibility ensure consistent performance under production and environmental variations.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MIMO communication; WiMax; low noise amplifiers; power amplifiers; radiofrequency integrated circuits; wireless LAN; CMOS; MIMO rank; PA drivers; RX chains; TX chains; WiFi-WiMAX multicom RFIC; dual-band 802.11 radio; fractional-N synthesizer; integrated LNA; nonharmonic frequency generation; size 90 nm; triple-band 802.16; Baseband; Calibration; Driver circuits; Dual band; Flexible printed circuits; Frequency synthesizers; MIMO; Production; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; WiMAX; 802.11n; 802.16e; CMOS Radio; MIMO Communications; Multi-Standard; RFIC; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems, 2009. COMCAS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3985-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMCAS.2009.5386011

Filename

5386011