A GaAs MMIC chip set for 2 to 5 GHz fixed wireless services delivery

Author

Brown, D.A. ; Birkbeck, J.D. ; Pennington, D.C. ; Green, C.R.

Author_Institution

Nortel Networks

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

722

Abstract

The emergence of volume markets for fixed wireless delivery of telephony and data in the 2 to 5 GHz band drive the design of low cost integrated radio transceivers. The design of three GaAs MMICs for the implementation of a 3.5 GHz radio front-end is described, which together with catalogue available silicon integrated circuits forms the radio part of a residential transceiver for fixed wireless service delivery. The three low cost plastic packaged GaAs chips constitute a receive down-converter, transmit up-converter and +31.6 dBm power amplifier. The application of this GaAs chip set to broadband (data) wireless access is also considered

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MESFET integrated circuits; MMIC frequency convertors; MMIC power amplifiers; data communication equipment; field effect MMIC; gallium arsenide; radio access networks; transceivers; 2 to 5 GHz; 31.6 dB; GaAs; GaAs MMIC chip set; MESFET technology; broadband wireless access; data communication; fixed wireless services delivery; low cost integrated radio transceivers; low cost plastic packaged chips; power amplifier; radio front-end; receive down-converter; residential transceiver; telephony; transmit up-converter; wireless local loop; Attenuators; Bandwidth; Costs; Gallium arsenide; Internet telephony; Low-noise amplifiers; MMICs; Radio frequency; Radio transceivers; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5668-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.1999.796741

Filename

796741