Co-design of 60GHz wideband front-end IC with on-chip Tx/Rx switch based on passive macro-modeling

Author

Lixue Kuang ; Baoyong Chi ; Haikun Jia ; Zuochang Ye ; Wen Jia ; Zhihua Wang

Author_Institution

Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 June 2013

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

96

Abstract

Summary form only given. Co-design of 60GHz wideband front-end IC with on-chip Tx/Rx switch in 65nm CMOS is presented. Passive macro-modeling (pmm) is utilized to convert S-parameter files from passive component EM simulations to state-space models in circuit netlist format which could be used in commercial SPICE simulator for various analyses without convergence issues. The co-design of on-chip switch and LNA/PA could achieve wideband matching and reduce the effects of insertion loss of on-chip Tx/Rx switch. Combining with gain boosting technique in LNA design and lumped-component based design methodology, the implemented 60GHz front-end IC with on-chip Tx/Rx switch achieves 3dB gain bandwidth of 12GHz with maximum gain 17.8dB and minimum NF 5.6dB in Rx mode and 3dB gain bandwidth of 10GHz with saturated output power 5.6dBm in Tx mode, and only consumes 1.0mm×1.2mm die area (including pads).

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; S-parameters; circuit simulation; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; low noise amplifiers; passive networks; state-space methods; switching circuits; CMOS; LNA design; S-parameter file; SPICE simulator; bandwidth 10 GHz; bandwidth 12 GHz; circuit netlist format; codesign; frequency 60 GHz; gain 17.8 dB; gain 3 dB; gain boosting technique; insertion loss; lumped-component based design methodology; noise figure 5.6 dB; on-chip Tx/Rx switch; passive component EM simulation; passive macromodeling; saturated output power; size 65 nm; state-space model; wideband front-end IC; wideband matching; CMOS integrated circuits; Integrated circuit modeling; Scattering parameters; Switches; Switching circuits; System-on-chip; Mm-wave; Passive macro-modeling (pmm); low noise amplifier (LNA); power amplifier (PA); single-pole-double-throw T/R switch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6059-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2013.6569531

Filename

6569531