A zero-IF 60 GHz 65 nm CMOS transceiver with direct BPSK modulation demonstrating up to 6 Gb/s data rates over a 2 m wireless link

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2085-2099

  Tomkins, Alexander ^a   Aroca, Ricardo Andres ^a   Yamamoto, Takuji ^b   Nicolson, Sean T ^a   Doi, Yoshiyasu ^b   Voinigescu, Sorin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

60 GHz; Millimeter wave; Nanoscale CMOS; Process variation; Wireless transceiver

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BINARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NOISE FIGURE; TRANSCEIVERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WAVEFRONTS;

60 GHZ; HIGH-FREQUENCY TRANSISTORS; NANO-SCALE CMOS; PROCESS VARIATION; STATIC FREQUENCY DIVIDERS; TRANSCEIVER ARCHITECTURE; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER; ZERO-IF TRANSCEIVERS;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 68649106231     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2022918     Document Type: Article

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