Title
An 80-Gb/S 300-Ghz-Band Single-Chip Cmos Transceiver
Abstract
A single-chip CMOS transceiver (TRX) capable of wireless data rates up to 80 Gb/s using part of frequencies (252-279 GHz) covered by IEEE Std 802.15.3d is presented. The TRX chip operates in either transmitter (TX) or receiver (RX) mode at frequencies comparable to f(max) of the NMOSFET. The TX part adopts mixer-last architecture with four-way power combining using a ring circuit called a double-rat-race. The RX part adopts fundamental-mixer-first direct-conversion architecture. In the RX mode, the TX serves as an LO multiplier chain, which conventionally accounted for a significant part of the RX die area. The double-rat-race, having an improved design than the original one, integrates the TX and RX and also rejects unwanted harmonics generated by the frequency-doubler-based upconversion mixer. Low-loss, low-characteristic-impedance transmission lines are used extensively to combat losses. The TRX was fabricated using a 40-nm CMOS process. The saturated output power of the TX is -1.6 dBm at 265.68 GHz. The mean single-sideband noise figure (SSB NF) of the RX is 22.9 dB. The TX mode and the RX mode consume dc power of 890 and 897 mW, respectively. A wireless data rate of 80 Gb/s between a pair of TRX chips is demonstrated with 16QAM over a distance of 3 cm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/JSSC.2019.2944855
IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Beyond 5G, near-f(max) circuits, terahertz wireless communication
Transceiver,Computer science,Chip,CMOS,Electronic engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
12
0018-9200
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sang-yeop Lee1144.65
Shinsuke Hara2778159.23
Takeshi Yoshida3309.22
Shuhei Amakawa42910.93
Ruibing Dong542.93
Akifumi Kasamatsu632.77
Junji Sato793.07
Minoru Fujishima89630.68