An 802.11g WLAN SoC

Author

Mehta, Srenik S. ; Weber, David ; Terrovitis, Manolis ; Onodera, Keith ; Mack, Michael P. ; Kaczynski, Brian J. ; Samavati, Hirad ; Jen, S.H.-M. ; Si, W.W. ; Lee, MeeLan ; Singh, Kalwant ; Mendis, Sunetra ; Husted, Paul J. ; Zhang, Ning ; McFarland, Bill

Author_Institution

Atheros Commun., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Volume

40

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2483

Lastpage

2491

Abstract

A single-chip IEEE-802.11g-compliant wireless LAN system-on-a-chip (SoC) that implements all RF, analog, digital PHY and MAC functions has been integrated in a 0.18-μm CMOS technology. The IC transmits 0-dBm EVM-compliant output power for a 64-QAM OFDM signal. The overall receiver sensitivities are better than -92 and -73 dBm for data rates of 6 and 54Mb/s, respectively.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; IEEE standards; OFDM modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; system-on-chip; transceivers; wireless LAN; 0.18 micron; 54 Mbit/s; 6 Mbit/s; 64-QAM OFDM signal; CMOS technology; EVM-compliant output power; IEEE-802.11g; MAC function; RF function; WLAN SoC; analog function; digital PHY function; receiver sensitivity; wireless LAN system-on-a-chip; Calibration; Integrated circuit noise; OFDM modulation; Physical layer; Radio frequency; Spread spectrum communication; System-on-a-chip; Transceivers; Transmitters; Wireless LAN; CMOS integrated circuits; IEEE 802.11a; IEEE 802.11b; IEEE 802.11g; OFDM; RF transceiver; frequency synthesis; low noise amplifier; noise coupling; power amplifier; synthesizer; wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2005.857418

Filename

1546224