A 16TX/16RX 60 GHz 802.11ad chipset with single coaxial interface and polarization diversity

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3031-3045

  Boers, Michael ^a   Afshar, Bagher ^a   Vassiliou, Iason ^a   Sarkar, Saikat ^a   Nicolson, Sean T ^a   Adabi, Ehsan ^a,b   Perumana, Bevin George ^a   Chalvatzis, Theodoros ^a   Kavvadias, Spyros ^a   Sen, Padmanava ^c   Chan, Wei Liat ^a   Yu, Alvin Hsing Ting ^a,d   Parsa, Ali ^a,b   Nariman, Med ^a,e   Yoon, Seunghwan ^a   Besoli, Alfred Grau ^a   Kyriazidou, Chryssoula A ^a   Zochios, Gerasimos ^a   Castaneda, Jesus A ^a   Sowlati, Tirdad ^a   Rofougaran, Maryam ^a   Rofougaran, Ahmadreza ^a   more..

^a BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^b APPLE INC   (United States)

^c Broadcom Communications   (India)

^d MEDIATEK INC   (Taiwan)

^e QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; millimeter wave integrated circuits; phased arrays; wireless communication

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BEAM FORMING NETWORKS; COAXIAL CABLES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; POLARIZATION; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CABLE INTERFACE; COAXIAL INTERFACES; COST INTEGRATIONS; HIGH-VOLUME PRODUCTION; MILLIMETER-WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OFDM MODULATION; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84913597420     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2014.2356462     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications Amendment 3: Enhancements for VeryHigh Throughput in the 60GHz Band, IEEE Std. 802.11ad-2012, 2012.
2. T. Rappaport, J. Murdock, and F. Gutierrez, "State of the art in 60-GHz integrated circuits and systems for wireless communications," Proc. IEEE, vol. 99, pp. 1390-1436, Aug. 2011.
3. A. Niknejad, S. Emami, B. Heydari, M. Bohsali, and E. Adabi, "Nanoscale CMOS for mm-wave applications," in Proc. IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symp., CSIC 2007, Oct. 2007, pp. 1-4.
4. A. Natarajan et al., "A fully-integrated 16-element phased-array receiver in SiGe BiCMOS for 60-GHz communications," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 1059-1075, May 2011.
5. V. Vidojkovic et al., "A low-power radio chipset in 40 nm LP CMOS with beamforming for 60 GHz high-data-rate wireless communication," in 2013 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC) Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2013, pp. 236-237.
6. S. Emami et al., "A 60 GHz CMOS phased-array transceiver pair for multi-gb/s wireless communications," in 2011 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC) Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2011, pp. 164-166.
7. E. Cohen, M. Ruberto, M. Cohen, O. Degani, S. Ravid, and D. Ritter, "A CMOS bidirectional 32-element phased-array transceiver at 60 GHz with LTCC antenna," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 1359-1375, Mar. 2013.
8. A. Maltsev, R. Maslennikov, A. Sevastyanov, A. Khoryaev, and A. Lomayev, "Experimental investigations of 60 GHz WLAN systems in office environment," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 27, pp. 1488-1499, Oct. 2009.
9. B. Langen, G. Lober, and W. Herzig, "Reflection and transmission behaviour of building materials at 60 GHz," in Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Symp. Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1994. Wireless Networks - Catching the Mobile Future, Sep. 1994, vol. 2, pp. 505-509.
10. T. Zwick, T. Beukema, and H. Nam, "Wideband channel sounder with measurements and model for the 60 GHz indoor radio channel," IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technol., vol. 54, pp. 1266-1277, Jul. 2005.
11. S. Collonge, G. Zaharia, and G. Zein, "Influence of the human activity on wide-band characteristics of the 60 GHz indoor radio channel," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 3, pp. 2396-2406, Nov. 2004.
12. C. Gustafson and F. Tufvesson, "Characterization of 60 GHz shadowing by human bodies and simple phantoms," in Proc. 6th Eur. Conf. Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Mar. 2012, pp. 473-477.
13. T. Tsukizawa et al., "A fully integrated 60 GHz CMOS transceiver chipset based on WiGig/IEEE802.11ad with built-in self calibration for mobile applications," in 2013 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC) Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2013, pp. 230-231.
14. M. Boers et al., "20.2 a 16TX/16RX 60 GHz 802.11ad chipset with single coaxial interface and polarization diversity," in 2014 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC) Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2014, pp. 344-345.
15. B. Afshar, Y. Wang, and A. Niknejad, "A robust 24 mW 60 GHz receiver in 90 nm standard CMOS," in 2008 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC) Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2008, pp. 182-605.
16. B. Heydari, M. Bohsali, E. Adabi, and A. Niknejad, "Millimeter-wave devices and circuit blocks up to 104 GHz in 90 nm CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 2893-2903, Dec. 2007.
17. B. Afshar and A. Niknejad, "X/Ku band CMOS LNA design techniques," in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf., CICC '06, Sep. 2006, pp. 389-392.
18. F. Vecchi et al., "A wideband receiver for multi-gbit/s communications in 65 nm CMOS," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 551-561, Mar. 2011.
19. D. Chowdhury, P. Reynaert, and A. Niknejad, "A 60 GHz 1 V +12.3 dBm transformer-coupled wideband PA in 90 nm CMOS," in 2008 IEEE Int. Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC) Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 2008, pp. 560-635.
20. W. Chan and J. Long, "A 58-65 GHz neutralized CMOS power amplifier with PAE above 10% at 1-V supply," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 554-564, Mar. 2010.
21. N. Deferm, J. Osorio, A. de Graauw, and P. Reynaert, "A 94 GHz differential power amplifier in 45 nm LP CMOS," in Proc. 2011 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symp. (RFIC), Jun. 2011, pp. 1-4.
22. S. R. E. Cohen, O. Degani, and D. Ritter, "Robust 60 GHz 90 nm and 40 nm CMOS wideband neutralized amplifiers with 23 dB gain 4.6 dB NF and 24% PAE," in Proc. Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), Jan. 2012, pp. 207-210.
23. I. Vassiliou et al., "A single-chip digitally calibrated 5.15-5.825-GHz 0.18- m CMOS transceiver for 802.11a wireless LAN," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 2221-2231, Dec. 2003.