A fully integrated 60 GHz transmitter front-end with a PLL, an image-rejection filter and a PA in SiGe

Author

Glisic, Srdjan ; Sun, Yaoming ; Herzel, Frank ; Piz, Maxim ; Grass, Eckhard ; Scheytt, Christoph ; Winkler, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

IHP, Frankfurt (Oder)

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

242

Lastpage

245

Abstract

This paper presents a fully integrated transmitter front-end for 60 GHz wireless communication, produced in 0.25 mum SiGe:C BiCMOS technology. The transmitter features a mixer, a phase-locked loop (PLL), a preamplifier, an image-rejection filter and a power amplifier (PA). The measured single-ended 1dB compression point at the output is 10.5 dBm and the saturated power is 14.9 dBm. Error free data transmission with a QPSK OFDM signal and data rate of 360 Mbit/s over 5 m was demonstrated.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; millimetre wave mixers; millimetre wave power amplifiers; phase locked loops; preamplifiers; radiocommunication; BiCMOS technology; OFDM; PA; PLL; QPSK; SiGe; bit rate 360 Mbit/s; frequency 60 GHz; image-rejection filter; mixer; phase-locked loop; power amplifier; preamplifier; size 0.25 mum; transmitter front-end; wireless communication; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Germanium silicon alloys; Phase locked loops; Power amplifiers; Power filters; Power measurement; Preamplifiers; Silicon germanium; Transmitters; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ESSCIRC 2008. 34th European

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

ISSN

1930-8833

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2361-3

Electronic_ISBN

1930-8833

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.2008.4681837

Filename

4681837