A 40 GHz CMOS transceiver and radio front-end for the customer premise equipment unit of a radio-over-fiber system

Author

Farid, Nazif Emran ; Nigam, Abhishek ; Rahim, S. A. Enche Abdul ; Hassan, S. M. Mohd ; Sanusi, Rasidah ; Rahim, Ahmad Ismat Abdul

Author_Institution

Adv. Phys. Technol. Unit (APT) of TM Res. & Dev, Cyberjaya, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

286

Lastpage

291

Abstract

A miniature 40 GHz transceiver and radio front-end designed and simulated using a 0.13-μm RF CMOS process for Radio-over-Fiber applications is presented in this paper. The transceiver employs a direct-conversion architecture. The radio is designed for a frequency division duplex (FDD) communications system. PHY layer data rates as high as 1.5 Gbps on a wireless link are feasible using this radio design. The phase-locked-loop (PLL) and supporting digital circuits however, are not included. The receiver shows a power gain of about 41 dB with a LNA noise figure of 7 dB. The transmitter achieves a conversion gain of about 40.7 dB and an output P1dB of 10.7 dBm.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; frequency division multiplexing; optical transceivers; radio transmitters; radio-over-fibre; CMOS transceiver; FDD communications system; PHY layer data rates; RF CMOS process; bit rate 1.5 Gbit/s; conversion gain; customer premise equipment unit; digital circuits; direct-conversion architecture; frequency 40 GHz; frequency division duplex; gain 40.7 dB; gain 41 dB; noise figure 7 dB; phase-locked-loop; power gain; radio design; radio front-end; radio-over-fiber applications; radio-over-fiber system; transmitter; wireless link; Baseband; Gain; Mixers; Radio frequency; Receivers; Transceivers; Transmitters; Customer premise equipment (CPE); RF CMOS; Radio-over-fiber (ROF); Transceiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

ISSN

2162-6588

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2013.6663864

Filename

6663864