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CMOS mm-wave transceivers for Gbps wireless communication

Baoyong Chi, Zheng Song, Lixue Kuang, Haikun Jia, Xiangyu Meng and Zhihua Wang

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 Corresponding author: Chi Baoyong, Email: chibylxc@tsinghua.edu.cn

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/7/071001

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Abstract: The challenges in the design of CMOS millimeter-wave (mm-wave) transceiver for Gbps wireless communication are discussed. To support the Gbps data rate, the link bandwidth of the receiver/transmitter must be wide enough, which puts a lot of pressure on the mm-wave front-end as well as on the baseband circuit. This paper discusses the effects of the limited link bandwidth on the transceiver system performance and overviews the bandwidth expansion techniques for mm-wave amplifiers and IF programmable gain amplifier. Furthermore, dual-mode power amplifier (PA) and self-healing technique are introduced to improve the PA's average efficiency and to deal with the process, voltage, and temperature variation issue, respectively. Several fully-integrated CMOS mm-wave transceivers are also presented to give a short overview on the state-of-the-art mm-wave transceivers.

Key words: mm-wave integrated circuit, transceiver, CMOS, wireless communication, wide-band, power amplifier



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Fig. 1.  Channel plan in 60GHz band and frequency allocations by region.

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Fig. 2.  (a) PAE versus output power for the conventional PA. (b)~PAE versus output power for the dual-mode PA.

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Fig. 3.  (a) Conventional DA topology. (b) Modified DA-based topology. (c) Simulated S21 of the conventional DA topology and the modified DA-based topology when N=3.

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Fig. 4.  (a) Schematic of the modified-DA-based PA. (b) The simulated gain bandwidth of the PA. (c) The measured output power of the transmitter (including the insertion loss of the on-chip T/R switch), where the PA is inserted into the transmitter link.

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Fig. 5.  (a) Co-design of the on-chip T/R switch with the LNA and the PA. (b) Simplified matching schematic in the RX mode. (c) Multi-stage matching procedure in the RX mode. (d) Measured and simulated S-parameters in the RX mode.

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Fig. 6.  Capacitively coupled resonator and its normalized frequency transfer function.

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Fig. 7.  (Color online) Inductively coupled resonator and its normalized magnitude response of Z21.

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Fig. 8.  Schematic of the wideband PGA.

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Fig. 9.  (a) Simplified schematic of the dual-mode PA. (b) The measured PAE in LP/HP mode.

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Fig. 10.  (a) Schematic of the dual-mode PA. (b) The measured PAE in LP/HP mode.

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Fig. 11.  (a) Diagram of the mm-wave amplifier with the closed-loop self-healing. (b) Structure of the DiCAD transmission line. (c) Measured S-parameters before and after closed-loop self-healing.

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Fig. 12.  Block diagram of a fully integrated 60-GHz 5-Gbps QPSK transceiver.

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      Baoyong Chi, Zheng Song, Lixue Kuang, Haikun Jia, Xiangyu Meng, Zhihua Wang. CMOS mm-wave transceivers for Gbps wireless communication[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2016, 37(7): 071001. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/7/071001 ****B Y Chi, Z Song, L X Kuang, H K Jia, X Y Meng, Z H Wang. CMOS mm-wave transceivers for Gbps wireless communication[J]. J. Semicond., 2016, 37(7): 071001. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/7/071001.
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      Baoyong Chi, Zheng Song, Lixue Kuang, Haikun Jia, Xiangyu Meng, Zhihua Wang. CMOS mm-wave transceivers for Gbps wireless communication[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2016, 37(7): 071001. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/7/071001 ****
      B Y Chi, Z Song, L X Kuang, H K Jia, X Y Meng, Z H Wang. CMOS mm-wave transceivers for Gbps wireless communication[J]. J. Semicond., 2016, 37(7): 071001. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/7/071001.
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      CMOS mm-wave transceivers for Gbps wireless communication

      DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/37/7/071001
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      • Corresponding author: Chi Baoyong, Email: chibylxc@tsinghua.edu.cn
      • Received Date: 2016-06-12
      • Published Date: 2016-01-25

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