TY - GEN
T1 - 60-GHz band beam forming receiver RFIC for broadband communication phased array antenna module
AU - Ta, Tuan Thanh
AU - Nakamura, Mikoto
AU - Wada, Osamu
AU - Gomyo, Katsunori
AU - Suzuki, Yuya
AU - Yoshida, Satoshi
AU - Tanifuji, Shoichi
AU - Kameda, Suguru
AU - Suematsu, Noriharu
AU - Takagi, Tadashi
AU - Tsubouchi, Kazuo
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In order to extend the communication range of the 60-GHz band broadband communication system, beam forming technology has been introduced. Due to the relatively high insertion loss and high phase/amplitude errors of 60-GHz band radio frequency (RF) phase shifter, broadband base band (BB) phase shifter has been focused. In this paper, we have developed a beam forming CMOS receiver RF integrated circuits (RFIC) with 5-bit BB phase shifter for the use in phased array antenna (PAA) receiver module employing 3-dimensional (3-D) system in package (SiP) technology. The receiver RFIC consists of a 7-stages low noise amplifier (LNA), an on-chip balun, a down-mixer, a quadrature-mixer, and a 5bit BB phase shifter. To obtain the broadband characteristic of 2 GHz at RF (i.e., 1 GHz at BB), BB phase shifter has been carefully designed. By using fixed-gain amplifier matrix configuration instead of variable gain amplifiers, broadband and low phase/amplitude errors are obtained. The fabricated receiver RFIC in 90-nm CMOS process exhibits performance applicable to 60-GHz band broadband communication such as IEEE 802.15.3c (channel 2).
AB - In order to extend the communication range of the 60-GHz band broadband communication system, beam forming technology has been introduced. Due to the relatively high insertion loss and high phase/amplitude errors of 60-GHz band radio frequency (RF) phase shifter, broadband base band (BB) phase shifter has been focused. In this paper, we have developed a beam forming CMOS receiver RF integrated circuits (RFIC) with 5-bit BB phase shifter for the use in phased array antenna (PAA) receiver module employing 3-dimensional (3-D) system in package (SiP) technology. The receiver RFIC consists of a 7-stages low noise amplifier (LNA), an on-chip balun, a down-mixer, a quadrature-mixer, and a 5bit BB phase shifter. To obtain the broadband characteristic of 2 GHz at RF (i.e., 1 GHz at BB), BB phase shifter has been carefully designed. By using fixed-gain amplifier matrix configuration instead of variable gain amplifiers, broadband and low phase/amplitude errors are obtained. The fabricated receiver RFIC in 90-nm CMOS process exhibits performance applicable to 60-GHz band broadband communication such as IEEE 802.15.3c (channel 2).
KW - BFN
KW - Beam forming
KW - CMOS
KW - Millimeter-wave
KW - Phase shifter
KW - Phased array antenna
KW - RFIC
KW - W-PAN
KW - module
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U2 - 10.1109/APMC.2013.6695103
DO - 10.1109/APMC.2013.6695103
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893384479
SN - 9781479914746
T3 - Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC
SP - 230
EP - 232
BT - 2013 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC 2013
T2 - 2013 3rd Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2013
Y2 - 5 November 2013 through 8 November 2013
ER -