A fully integrated 60-GHz CMOS transceiver chipset based on WiGig/IEEE 802.11ad with built-in self calibration for mobile usage

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3146-3159

  Saito, Noriaki ^a   Tsukizawa, Takayuki ^a   Shirakata, Naganori ^a   Morita, Tadashi ^a   Tanaka, Koichiro ^a   Sato, Junji ^a   Morishita, Yohei ^a   Kanemaru, Masaki ^a   Kitamura, Ryo ^a   Shima, Takahiro ^a   Nakatani, Toshifumi ^b   Miyanaga, Kenji ^a   Urushihara, Tomoya ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Sakamoto, Takenori ^a   Motozuka, Hiroyuki ^a   Shirakawa, Yoshinori ^a   Yosoku, Naoya ^a   Yamamoto, Akira ^a   Shiozaki, Ryosuke ^a   Takinami, Koji ^a   more..

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz; Built in Self Calibration (BiSC); CMOS; Direct conversion; Frequency domain equalizer (FDE); IEEE 802.11ad; Transceiver; WiGig

Indexed keywords

60 GHZ; DIRECT CONVERSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN EQUALIZER (FDE); IEEE 802.11AD; SELF CALIBRATION; WIGIG;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EQUALIZERS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MODULATION; STANDARDS; TRANSCEIVERS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84889637502     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2013.2279573     Document Type: Article

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