A 120GHz fully integrated 10Gb/s wireless transmitter with on-chip antenna in 45nm low power CMOS

Author

Deferm, Noel ; Volkaerts, Wouter ; Osorio, Juan F. ; de Graauw, Anton ; Steyaert, M. ; Reynaert, Patrick

Author_Institution

KU Leuven ESAT/MICAS, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2013

fDate

16-20 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

331

Lastpage

334

Abstract

In this paper a fully integrated D-band transmitter with on-chip dipole bondwire antenna implemented in 45nm low power CMOS is presented. On-chip frequency generation, insensitive to VCO pulling, is integrated together with a direct carrier quadrature vector modulator, ASK modulator, 4-stage differential transformer-coupled power amplifier and antenna. Digital baseband circuits are also integrated on the same chip. The chip is capable of generating QPSK and Star-QAM modulation formats. Data transmission over a distance up to 1m is achieved for data rates as high as 2Gb/s. For shorter distances, data rates up to 10Gb/s are measured.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; amplitude shift keying; antennas; low-power electronics; power amplifiers; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; radio transmitters; 4-stage differential transformer-coupled power amplifier; ASK modulator; QPSK; VCO pulling; antenna; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data transmission; digital baseband circuits; direct carrier quadrature vector modulator; frequency 120 GHz; fully integrated D-band transmitter; fully integrated wireless transmitter; low power CMOS; on-chip dipole bondwire antenna; on-chip frequency generation; size 45 nm; star-QAM modulation; Antenna measurements; CMOS integrated circuits; Dipole antennas; Frequency modulation; Phase shift keying; Transmitters; 45nm; CMOS; D-band; RF front end; millimeter-wave; on-chip antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ESSCIRC (ESSCIRC), 2013 Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Bucharest

ISSN

1930-8833

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0643-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.2013.6649140

Filename

6649140