Design of a Wideband Antenna for Wireless Network-On-Chip in Multimedia Applications

Abstract

Abstract:To allow fast communication-at several Gb/s-of multimedia content among processors and memories in a multi-processor system-on-chip, a new approach is emerging in literature: Wireless Network-on-Chip (WiNoC). With reference to this scenario, this paper presents the design of the key element of the WiNoC: the antenna. Specifically, a bow-tie antenna is proposed, which operates at mm-waves and can be implemented on-chip using the top metal layer of a conventional silicon CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology. The antenna performance is discussed in the paper and is compared to the state-of-the-art, including the zig-zag antenna topology that is typically used in literature as a reference for WiNoC. The proposed bow-tie antenna design for WiNoC stands out for its good trade-off among bandwidth, gain, size and beamwidth vs. the state-of-the-art.

Fractal Yagi-Uda antenna for WLAN applications

“…Lately, wireless local area network (WLAN) technologies are extremely popular for wireless communication because of their advantage such as high data rate transfer with limitless internet access. Previous research shows that for WLAN system that operates in 2.4 GHz frequency, ceramic chip and monopole antenna are widely used [1][2][3][4][5] plus numerous planar antennas presented in [6] for WLAN applications, but the flaws that comes with them are low gain and low power control capacity. However, by using a patch Yagi-Uda antenna, these limitations can be overcome.…”