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Title | ||
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A Sub-6-Ghz 5g New Radio Rf Transceiver Supporting En-Dc With 3.15-Gb/S Dl And 1.27-Gb/S Ul In 14-Nm Finfet Cmos |
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The world's first single-chip RF transceiver to support 5G sub-6-GHz new radio (NR) and long-term evolution (LTE) E-UTRA New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) in 14-nm FinFET CMOS technology is presented. The single-chip transceiver integrates identical primary and diversity receivers ( RXs) with seven pipelines for supporting four inter-band carrier aggregation (CA) with three 4 x 4 MIMO, two independent transmitter (TX) chains, eight frequency synthesizers for RX and TX, and on-chip digitally controlled crystal oscillator (DCXO) to reduce the phase noise and bill of material (BOM) cost. The receiver features 12 single-ended low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) with wideband characteristics. With the help of the proposed pipeline structure and frequency-band switchable transformer, the die size can be reduced despite covering the whole frequency range from 2G to sub-6-GHz 5G NR. It achieves the noise figure (NF) from 6.5 to 9.3 dB, +3-dBm out-of-band (OOB) IIP3, more than +70-dBm OOB IIP2 after calibration. For the transmitter, low RX-band noise and harmonic suppression technique are applied to support surface acoustic wave (SAW)-less architecture, and the bandwidth control of the baseband filter is implemented for the digital pre-distortion (DPD) operation of 100-MHz BW in NR transmit data. The measured error vector magnitudes (EVMs) in 4G and 5G bands of n79 are -39.5 dB at +4-dBm output power and -33.9 dB at +3.06-dBm output power, respectively, and the measured RX-band noise of 2G is -163 dBc at 20-MHz offset. The RX consumes 18 mW at LTE 1-CA mode and the TX consumes 350 mW at n79. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/JSSC.2019.2938132 | IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
5G, cellular RF transceiver, E-UTRA New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), long-term evolution (LTE), surface acoustic wave (SAW)-less, sub-6-GHz new radio (NR) | Journal | 54 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
12 | 0018-9200 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 21 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jongwoo Lee | 1 | 106 | 13.95 |
| Kiyong Son | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Hyungsun Lim | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Daechul Jeong | 4 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Ilyong Jong | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Sanghyun Baek | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Jae Hoon Lee | 7 | 176 | 37.92 |
| Ronghua Ni | 8 | 0 | 1.35 |
| Yongrong Zuo | 9 | 0 | 1.35 |
| Chih-Wei Yao | 10 | 14 | 3.60 |
| Seung-Chan Heo | 11 | 8 | 2.65 |
| Sangwook Han | 12 | 0 | 2.03 |
| Thomas Byunghak Cho | 13 | 21 | 8.93 |
| Inyup Kang | 14 | 304 | 32.39 |
| Joonhee Lee | 15 | 0 | 1.69 |
| byoungjoong kang | 16 | 1 | 1.45 |
| Jeongyeol Bae | 17 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Jaehyuk Jang | 18 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Seunghyun Oh | 19 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Ji-Soo Chang | 20 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Sanghoon Kang | 21 | 0 | 0.34 |