{"title":"Efficient three-state WCDMA PA integrated with high-performance BiHEMT HBT / E-D pHEMT process","authors":"T. Apel, T. Henderson, Yunxin Tang, O. Berger","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561406","url":null,"abstract":"Power amplifiers for WCDMA applications must provide competitive power efficiency at low power levels as well as at full power. This paper presents a novel approach to obtain high PAE performance over a wide power band from three power states. It uses a novel BiHEMT process to co-integrate InGaP/GaAs HBT technology with InGaAs/AlGaAs E/D-Mode pHEMT into a single process. No bias reference voltage is required. Typical ultra-low power mode quiescent current is 5 mA.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125461473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A compact 5GHz Q-enhanced standing-wave resonator-based filter in 0.13μm CMOS","authors":"D. Shi, M. Flynn","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561475","url":null,"abstract":"A fully-integrated 5 GHz bandpass filter with 0 dB IL and 3 dB bandwidth of 9.5% (1 dB bandwidth of 6%) is reported. The filter employs novel on-chip capacitively-loaded, transmission-line standing-wave resonators and Q-enhancement circuits. A prototype 5 GHz on-chip filter, implemented in 0.13 mum CMOS, dissipates 2.88 mW from a 1.2 V supply, and occupies a die area of 0.3 mm2.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126889137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel compact complementary Colpitts differential CMOS VCO with low phase-noise performance","authors":"Chien-Cheng Wei, H. Chiu, Yi-Tzu Yang","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561495","url":null,"abstract":"A low phase-noise Ka-band CMOS voltage-controlled oscillator is proposed in this paper. The CMOS VCO core adopts a new complementary Colpitts structure in a 0.18- mum CMOS technology to achieve the differential-ended outputs with low phase-noise performance, as well as operate at much higher frequency. The VCO oscillates from 29.8 to 30 GHz with 200 MHz tuning range. The measured phase-noise at 1-MHz offset is -109 dBc/Hz at 30 GHz and 105.5 dBc/Hz at 29.8 GHz. The power consumption of the VCO core is only 27 mW. To the authorspsila knowledge, the proposed CMOS VCO achieves the best figure of merit (FOM) of -185 dB at 29.95- GHz band.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127037939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Eliezer, B. Staszewski, S. Bhatara, I. Bashir, P. Balsara
{"title":"Active mitigation of induced phase distortion in a GSM SoC","authors":"O. Eliezer, B. Staszewski, S. Bhatara, I. Bashir, P. Balsara","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561376","url":null,"abstract":"A novel technique for the mitigation of self-interference in a GSM transmitter is presented. It was designed to mitigate the impact of interference caused by the transmitterpsilas high frequency signals to the on-chip circuitry responsible for generating the PLLpsilas crystal-based reference clock. Excessive jitter experienced in this reference clock causes intolerable modulation distortion, as it is effectively amplified by the PLL that produces the transmitterpsilas modulated carrier. The presented technique, leveraging on specific features of the all-digital PLL (ADPLL), was demonstrated in a GSM system-on-chip (SoC) based on the digital RF processor (DRPtrade) technology in 90 nm CMOS.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126416690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 38-Gb/s 2-tap transversal equalizer in 0.13-μm CMOS using a microstrip delay element","authors":"G. Ng, A. C. Carusone, E. Rogers","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561419","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a single-ended integrated transversal 2-tap feed-forward equalizer implemented using a commercial 0.13-mum CMOS process. Equalization of a 38-Gb/s data stream over SMA cables with 14.3 dB of channel loss is demonstrated on-wafer. The equalizer features a microstrip transmission line as the delay element and ldquoline inductorsrdquo for improved impedance matching. The IC measures 1.5 mm times 0.26 mm, and consumes 30 mW of power from a 1.2 V supply.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123714452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
X. Guan, Xin Wang, Lin Lin, Guang Chen, A. Wang, Hainan Liu, Yumei Zhou, Hongyi Chen, Lee Yang, B. Zhao
{"title":"(Invited) ESD-RFIC Co-design methodology","authors":"X. Guan, Xin Wang, Lin Lin, Guang Chen, A. Wang, Hainan Liu, Yumei Zhou, Hongyi Chen, Lee Yang, B. Zhao","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561478","url":null,"abstract":"RF ESD protection circuitry design emerges as a big challenge to RF IC design, where the main problem is associated with performance degradation of RF IC due to ESD-induced parasitics. It has been difficult to incorporate the ESD impacts into RF IC design due to lack of proper co-design approach and ESD device models. This paper presents a new ESD-RFIC co-design methodology, including RF ESD design optimization and characterization, as well as RF I/O re-matching techniques, developed to enable wholechip design optimization of ESD-protected RF IC circuits, which is verified by practical designs in 0.18 mum RFCMOS.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124970089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A W-band SiGe 1.5V LNA for imaging applications","authors":"J. May, G. Rebeiz","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561427","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a 4-stage SiGe W-band amplifier for imaging applications designed in a 200 GHz ft SiGe BiCMOS process (IBM 8HP). The amplifier exhibits a gain of 19 dB at 85-89 GHz, a 3-dB bandwidth of 17 GHz, a NF of 8-10 dB over the measurement band, and consumes only 25 mW of DC power. The amplifier is very small (0.1 mm2 without pads), making it ideal for 8 or 16-element imaging arrays on a single chip. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a high-gain, high-bandwidth W-band amplifier using SiGe technology.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123838477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Quek, S. Farahvash, W. Roberts, M. Romney, D. Walker, C. Otten, R. Wei, D. Schwan, M. Mostafa, D. Haab, J. Liu, H. Liem, R. Koupal
{"title":"A 5.8GHz low-IF multi-data rate GFSK transceiver with clock recovery and integrated 21dBm power amplifier","authors":"C. Quek, S. Farahvash, W. Roberts, M. Romney, D. Walker, C. Otten, R. Wei, D. Schwan, M. Mostafa, D. Haab, J. Liu, H. Liem, R. Koupal","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561433","url":null,"abstract":"A highly integrated 5.8 GHz transceiver capable of supporting multiple data rates has been designed in 0.18 um SiGe BiCMOS for digital cordless phones and streaming audio applications. It also has a clock data recovery (CDR) circuit which can be supplied to baseband chips in conjunction with the digital received data. The transmitter with an integrated power amplifier consumes 185 mA achieving an output power of 20.5 dBm and the receiver consumes 65 mA achieving a sensitivity of -103.5 dBm and -101.5 dBm at 1.536 Mbps and 2.048 Mbps respectively. The active area is 7.3 mm2.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131296895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 91 GHz receiver front-end in silicon-germanium technology","authors":"Jihwan Kim, J. Alvarado, K. Kornegay","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561426","url":null,"abstract":"A W-band receiver front-end, including a low-noise amplifier (LNA), a coupled-wire Marchand balun and a double-balanced mixer, has been designed and fabricated in IBMpsilas 8 HP 0.12 mum, 200 GHz-fT SiGe technology. The circuit operates in the 87-94 GHz frequency range with a peak conversion gain of 36.3 dB and a minimum single side-band (SSB) noise figure of 10 dB. At 91 GHz the measured 1 dB input compression point is -36 dBm. The entire circuit occupies 1.82 mm2 including bond pads and dissipates only 109.7 mW. To the authorspsila knowledge this front-end achieves the highest conversion gain among published receiver front-ends in silicon-based technology operating beyond 90 GHz.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"452 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125784247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A transfer-curve-folded DCO in 0.13μm CMOS","authors":"J. Zhan, Hsiang-Hui Chang, Ping-Ying Wang","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2008.4561461","url":null,"abstract":"A DCO which achieves fine frequency resolution, provides interface controls for all-digital PLLs, and has a folded transfer curve to avoid frequency discontinuity is presented. The DCO occupies 520 mum times 780 mum, uses 20 mA current and operates from 3.2 GHz to 4.0 GHz. Its phase noise at 400 kHz, 3 MHz and 20 MHz are -117.3, -135.9 and -153.3 dBc/Hz, respectively. Its frequency coverage range and the phase noise satisfy requirements for GSM/GPRS/EDGE applications.","PeriodicalId":253375,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130977580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}