A compact antenna-in-package 60-GHz SiGe BiCMOS radio

Juntunen, Eric; Tomkins, A.; Poon, A. W. P.; Pham, Jennifer; El-Gabaly, Ahmed M.; Fakharzadeh, Mohammad; Tawfik, Hatem; To, Yat-Loong; Tazlauanu, Mihai; Lynch, Brad; Glibbery, Ron

doi:10.1109/rfic.2014.6851721

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“…For the antenna-integrated packaged solution, results are shown for both a line-of-sight (LOS) model and a none-line-of-sight model (NLOS), which consists of a two-reflection path. Results are shown for both the current generation silicon represented by this work, and a previous design [3]. Measured results, which will be fully described in Section V, follow the trend of the model's predictions, except for the highest data-rate point, where the measured results are slightly worse than expected.…”

Section: Wigig Performance Modelingsupporting

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“…The design of these major blocks will be described in the following sub-sections along with a selection of sub-blocks that provide testability and configuration options. Certain components of the implemented system have previously been presented [3], [18], and this will be indicated when appropriate.…”

Section: Transceiver Descriptionmentioning

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“…The RF portion of the receiver is partially based upon [3], but the general description will be repeated here for convenience, and differences will be indicated. The receiver baseband VGA and automatic gain-control (AGC) is new to this work.…”

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“…1) Low-Noise Amplifier: The low-noise amplifier, with no major changes from [3], is a 3-stage design with an output common-base stage that implements variable-gain control. The input stage is noise-matched to 50 in the presence of the expected bump-pad capacitance and offers a low-impedance DC path to ground for ESD protection.…”

Section: B Receivermentioning

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“…Modeled wireless link behavior for a single-element WiGig transceiver for various PHY data-rates. Blue triangle symbols are for measured LOS results for [3], and square symbols in orange are for this work. With the exception of the highest data -rate result, which is slightly worse than predicted, the model accurately predicts the realized system performance.…”

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A 60 GHz, 802.11ad/WiGig-Compliant Transceiver for Infrastructure and Mobile Applications in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS

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IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits

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A fully integrated 802.11ad/WiGig compliant 60 GHz transceiver is presented in a 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. Encompassing an area of 2.3 mm 2.16 mm 4.97 mm , the transceiver covers the entire 60 GHz band, from 57 to 66 GHz. Within this span, the RX NF, TX OP1dB, and PLL RMS jitter is better than 5.5 dB, 13.5 dBm, and 7 , respectively. The transceiver is packaged in 1) a system-in-package substrate with industry standard WR-15 transition providing an approximate 1 dB insertion loss, and 2) a cost-effective 7 7 mm organic BGA package with integrated transmit and receive antennas providing 8 dBi gain. In system-level testing, the transceiver is fully compliant with all TX EVM and RX sensitivity requirements of the WiGig standard up to the top-rate 16-QAM operating mode and across all standard channel frequencies. Link testing over the air with the antenna-integrated package shows a range of 5.9 m at 4.6 Gbps and over 20 m at 2.5 Gbps. This system achieves the highest performance 802.11ad/WiGig compliant wireless links of any reported single-element transceiver.

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