Title
A frequency-reconfigurable multi-standard 65nm CMOS digital transmitter with LTCC interposers
Abstract
This paper demonstrates a CMOS digital polar transmitter with flip-chip interconnection to low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) interposers. The LTCC interposers contain the PA output balun targeting different operating frequency bands, and the reconfiguration in the carrier frequency is achieved by selecting an appropriate LTCC interposer. The same CMOS core transmitter is reused for different frequency bands. In this design, an output power higher than 22 dBm from 0.6 to 2.4 GHz is demonstrated, with peak power of 27.1 dBm and peak efficiency of 52%. The polar transmitter includes 9-bit phase interpolation and 8-bit amplitude modulation, suitable and verified as a multi-standard universal digital modulator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ASSCC.2014.7008931
A-SSCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
cmos digital integrated circuits,uhf integrated circuits,amplitude modulation,ceramics,cryogenic electronics,flip-chip devices,integrated circuit interconnections,interpolation,transmitters,ltcc interposers,pa output balun,carrier frequency reconfiguration,core transmitter,digital polar transmitter,efficiency 52 percent,flip-chip interconnection,frequency 0.6 ghz to 2.4 ghz,frequency-reconfigurable multistandard cmos,low-temperature cofired ceramic interposers,operating frequency bands,phase interpolation,polar transmitter,power amplifier,size 65 nm,universal digital modulator,word length 8 bit,word length 9 bit,cmos,ltcc,digital polar modulation,digital transmitter,frequency modulation,cmos integrated circuits,ofdm,phase modulation,impedance matching
Transmitter,Balun,Computer science,Radio transmitter design,Impedance matching,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Interposer,Amplitude modulation,Frequency modulation,Electrical engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
4
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
naichung kuo1143.22
bonjern yang230.87
chaoying wu320.38
Lingkai Kong423127.91
angie wang542.86
michael t reiha620.38
Elad Alon7912121.97
Ali M. Niknejad8942148.48
borivoje nikolic961.87