Full Four-Channel 6.3-Gb/s 60-GHz CMOS Transceiver With Low-Power Analog and Digital Baseband Circuitry

• Published in: IEEE journal of solid-state circuits Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 46 - 65
• Main Authors: Okada, K., Kondou, K., Miyahara, M., Shinagawa, M., Asada, H., Minami, R., Yamaguchi, T., Musa, A., Tsukui, Y., Asakura, Y., Tamonoki, S., Yamagishi, H., Hino, Y., Sato, T., Sakaguchi, H., Shimasaki, N., Ito, T., Takeuchi, Y., Li, N., Bu, Q., Murakami, R., Bunsen, K., Matsushita, K., Noda, M., Matsuzawa, A.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.01.2013; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 16QAM; 60 GHz; Applied sciences; Baseband; Circuit properties; CMOS; CMOS integrated circuits; Consumption; Design. Technologies. Operation analysis. Testing; Digital; direct conversion; Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits; Electronic circuits; Electronics; Exact sciences and technology; Hardware; IEEE802.15.3c; injection-locked oscillator; Input-output equipment; Integrated circuits; LDPC; millimeter wave; Mixers; Noise; Oscillators, resonators, synthetizers; Phase shift keying; Radio frequencies; Radio frequency; Receiving; Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices; Signal convertors; transceiver; Transceivers; Transmission; Wireless communications; Quadrature amplitude modulation; direct conversion; Wireless telecommunication; Microwave; LDPC; 60 GHz; IEEE802.15.3c; Transceiver; Millimetric wave; CMOS; AD converter; User interface; Energetic efficiency; Complementary MOS technology; Electronic packaging; Parity check codes; Baseband; Direct convertor; Coding circuit; AD conversion; Transmission channel; Base band; DA converter; Quadrature phase shift keying; injection-locked oscillator; millimeter wave; 16QAM; Low-power electronics; Injection locked oscillators
• ISSN: 0018-9200; 1558-173X
• DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2218066

This paper presents a 60-GHz direct-conversion RF front-end and baseband transceiver including analog and digital circuitry for PHY functions. The 65-nm CMOS front-end consumes 319 and 223 mW in transmitting and receiving mode, respectively. It is capable of more than 7-Gb/s 16QAM wireless communication for every channel of the 60-GHz standards, which can be extended up to 10 Gb/s. The 40-nm CMOS baseband including analog, digital, and I/O consumes 196 and 427 mW for 16QAM in transmitting and receiving modes, respectively. In the analog baseband, a 5-b 2304-MS/s ADC consumes 12 mW, and a 6-b 3456-MS/s DAC consumes 11 mW. In the digital baseband integrating all PHY functions, a (1440, 1344) LDPC decoder consumes 74 mW with the low energy efficiency of 11.8 pJ/b. The entire system including both RF and BB using a 6-dBi antenna built in the organic package can transmit 3.1 Gb/s over 1.8 m in QPSK and 6.3 Gb/s over 0.05 m in 16QAM.