Design of 60 GHz low power & high data rate receiver for the next generation NFC systems

Abstract

This paper suggests 60 GHz non-coherent OOK receiver which is a strong candidate for 5G near filed communications in Korea. The receiver consists of a fully differential envelop detector and a limiting amplifier. The measured receiver shows 32 dB peak gain at -28 dBm input power level. The sensitivity of the receiver is measured -25 dBm under 3 Gbps data rate. The proposed receiver is fabricated with 65nm CMOS process and its measured power consumption is only 4.3 mW. As a result, the proposed receiver achieves energy efficiency of 1.43 pJ/bit.