A fully integrated 60-GHz transceiver for 802.11ad applications with superior performance in a 90-nm CMOS process versus prior arts is proposed and real based on a field-circuit co-design methodology.The reported tran...A fully integrated 60-GHz transceiver for 802.11ad applications with superior performance in a 90-nm CMOS process versus prior arts is proposed and real based on a field-circuit co-design methodology.The reported transceiver monolithically integrates a receiver,transmitter,PLL(Phase-Locked Loop)synthesizer,and LO(Local Oscillator)path based on a sliding-IF architecture.The transceiver supports up to a 16QAM modulation scheme and a data rate of 6 Gbit/s per channel,with an EVM(Error Vector Magnitude)of lower than−20 dB.The receiver path achieves a configurable conversion gain of 36~64 dB and a noise figure of 7.1 dB over 57~64 GHz,while consuming only 177 mW of power.The transmitter achieves a conversion gain of roughly 26 dB,with an output P1dB of 8 dBm and a saturated output power of over 10 dBm,consuming 252 mW of power from a 1.2-V supply.The LO path is composed of a 24-GHz PLL,doubler,and a divider chain,as well as an LO distribution network.In closed-loop operation mode,the PLL exhibits an integrated phase error of 3.3ºrms(from 100 kHz to 100 MHz)over prescribed frequency bands,and a total power dissipation of only 26 mW.All measured results are rigorously loyal to the simulation.展开更多
基金supported by The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2011AA010202,No.2015AA01A704)The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61101001,No.61204026,No.61331003)The Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program.
文摘A fully integrated 60-GHz transceiver for 802.11ad applications with superior performance in a 90-nm CMOS process versus prior arts is proposed and real based on a field-circuit co-design methodology.The reported transceiver monolithically integrates a receiver,transmitter,PLL(Phase-Locked Loop)synthesizer,and LO(Local Oscillator)path based on a sliding-IF architecture.The transceiver supports up to a 16QAM modulation scheme and a data rate of 6 Gbit/s per channel,with an EVM(Error Vector Magnitude)of lower than−20 dB.The receiver path achieves a configurable conversion gain of 36~64 dB and a noise figure of 7.1 dB over 57~64 GHz,while consuming only 177 mW of power.The transmitter achieves a conversion gain of roughly 26 dB,with an output P1dB of 8 dBm and a saturated output power of over 10 dBm,consuming 252 mW of power from a 1.2-V supply.The LO path is composed of a 24-GHz PLL,doubler,and a divider chain,as well as an LO distribution network.In closed-loop operation mode,the PLL exhibits an integrated phase error of 3.3ºrms(from 100 kHz to 100 MHz)over prescribed frequency bands,and a total power dissipation of only 26 mW.All measured results are rigorously loyal to the simulation.
