60GHz LNA and 15GHz VCO Design for Use in Broadband Millimeter-Wave WPAN System

Author

To, K. ; Welch, P. ; Scheitlin, D. ; Brown, B. ; Hammock, D. ; Tutt, M. ; Morgan, D. ; Braithwaite, S. ; John, J. ; Kirchgessner, J. ; Huang, W.M.

Author_Institution

Freescale Semicond. Inc., Tempe

fYear

2007

fDate

Sept. 30 2007-Oct. 2 2007

Firstpage

210

Lastpage

213

Abstract

This paper presents a 60 GHz LNA and a 15 GHz VCO with wide frequency range for Millimeter WPAN operating from 57-64 GHz. Using a cost-effective SiGe BiCMOS technology with ft and fmax of 200 GHz and 300 GHz respectively, the LNA demonstrates good matching and a gain of more than 20 dB with excellent flatness (less than 1.2 dB) from SSGHz to 65 GHz. The 15 GHz VCO, which is used to generate the 60 GHz LO signal, exhibits high output power of above 2 dBm with tuning range of 20%. This translates to a frequency range of 53 GHz to 66 GHz.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; broadband networks; germanium compounds; integrated circuit design; low noise amplifiers; millimetre wave integrated circuits; personal area networks; silicon compounds; voltage-controlled oscillators; LNA; SiGe BiCMOS; VCO design; broadband millimeter-wave WPAN system; frequency 15 GHz; frequency 53 GHz to 66 GHz; wireless personal area communication; Automotive engineering; CMOS technology; Costs; Frequency; Germanium silicon alloys; Isolation technology; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Silicon germanium; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 2007. BCTM '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1088-9299

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1019-4

Electronic_ISBN

1088-9299

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.2007.4351871

Filename

4351871