Sunwoo Kong, Hui-Dong Lee, Seunghyun Jang, Jeehoon Park, Kwang-Seon Kim, Kwangchun Lee
{"title":"A 28-GHz CMOS LNA with Stability-Enhanced Gm-Boosting Technique Using Transformers","authors":"Sunwoo Kong, Hui-Dong Lee, Seunghyun Jang, Jeehoon Park, Kwang-Seon Kim, Kwangchun Lee","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701753","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a low noise amplifier (LNA) using a gm-boosting technique with improved stability using transformers in the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) band. The transformer composed of three inductors improves not only stability, but also gain and low-noise performance of the LNA. The conditions for stability shows that the proposed structure can guarantee good stability over a high frequency range. The chip was fabricated using the TSMC 65-nm CMOS process and it has an active chip area of 0.11 µm2. The fabricated LNA has a gain of 18.33 dB and a noise figure (NF) of 3.25–4.2 dB. The stability factor µ values are 9.7 and 5.2 at the source and load sides of the LNA, respectively. The 3-dB bandwidth of the LNA is 24.9–32.5 GHz and the chip consumes 17.1-mA current from a 1.2-V supply.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"395 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114567702","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}
Nam-Seog Kim, Myounggyun Kim, Ashutosh Verma, Gyungseon Seol, Shinwoong Kim, Seokwon Lee, Chilun Lo, Jae-Yeol Han, Ikkyun Jo, Chulho Kim, Chih-Wei Yao, Jongwoo Lee
{"title":"A 1.04 - 4V, Digital-Intensive Dual-Mode BLE 5.0/IEEE 802.15.4 Transceiver SoC with extended range in 28nm CMOS","authors":"Nam-Seog Kim, Myounggyun Kim, Ashutosh Verma, Gyungseon Seol, Shinwoong Kim, Seokwon Lee, Chilun Lo, Jae-Yeol Han, Ikkyun Jo, Chulho Kim, Chih-Wei Yao, Jongwoo Lee","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701802","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed fully-integrated digital-intensive TRX SoC allows dual-mode protocols of BLE 5.0 and IEEE 802.14.5 with extended-range wireless connectivity and simple ad-hoc mesh networks for the IoTs in smart homes. A 1.04 - 4V with dual-mode supply schemes enables the SoC to be applied for various IoT systems energy-effectively and extends battery lifetime cost-effectively. The TRX employs a low insertion loss CMOS transmit- receive switch, a class-D power amplifier with HD2 calibration, a low-IF RX architecture with ΔΣ ADC-based complex filter, and a low power ADPLL with LMS-based two-point direct frequency modulation. The TRX implemented in a 28nm CMOS process achieves the maximum output power of +10dBm while consuming 45mW at the TX, <-102dBm at IEEE802.15.4 mode while consuming 6mW at the RX.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"76 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114117358","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}
F. Quadrelli, F. Panazzolo, M. Tiebout, F. Padovan, M. Bassi, A. Bevilacqua
{"title":"A 18.2-29.3 GHz Colpitts VCOs bank with -119.5 dBc/Hz Phase Noise at 1 MHz Offset for 5G Communications","authors":"F. Quadrelli, F. Panazzolo, M. Tiebout, F. Padovan, M. Bassi, A. Bevilacqua","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701813","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a bank of four SiGe BiCMOS oscillators tailored to cover the 18.2-29.3 GHz frequency range, needed to tackle the needs of 5G communications. The Colpitts oscillator topology is leveraged to achieve a lower absolute phase noise compared to Class-C oscillators, at the expense of deteriorated figure of merit. Benefiting from the proper technology choice, a careful tank design was carried out to maximize Q, minimize KVCO and phase noise variations. The four oscillators feature state-of-the-art phase noise, ranging from -119.5 dBc/Hz to -116.5 dBc/Hz at 1MHz offset for 18.2 GHz and 29.3 GHz carrier frequency, respectively. For each oscillator the phase noise variation is only <2 dB over -20°C to 85°C temperature range and <6 dB over the whole 47% tuning range.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116283400","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 60 GHz Polarization-Duplex TX/RX Front-End with Dual-Pol Antenna-IC Co-Integration in SiGe BiCMOS","authors":"Yao Liu, A. Natarajan","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701829","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a 60 GHz simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) TRX front-end with co-integrated antennas to achieve efficient polarization-duplex mm-wave front-end is presented. The proposed antenna approach provides broadside radiation through the substrate and is compatible with low-res silicon substrates. On-chip slot structures are driven by PAs with antenna power combining for increased output power and efficiency. The orthogonal-polarization feeds provide >40 dB simulated isolation between TX and RX around 60 GHz. Subsequent TX self-interference cancellation (SIC) at the LNA output is achieved with part of the TX signal coupled to a cancellation path, includes a reflection-type attenuator (RTA) and reflection-type phase shifter (RTPS) that provides >20 dB gain variation and full 360° variable phase shift. Overall, total average SIC >40 dB is achieved for 1.07 GHz RF bandwidth at 60 GHz in the presence of a reflector.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123640842","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 350mV Complementary 4-5 GHz VCO based on a 4-Port Transformer Resonator with 195.8dBc/Hz Peak FOM in 22nm FDSOI","authors":"O. El-Aassar, Gabriel M. Rebeiz","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701844","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ultra-low voltage and power complementary VCO topology based on a 4-port transformer resonator. The design benefits from the high current efficiency of a CMOS topology and the low phase noise and supply voltage of the NMOS/PMOS-only structure without sacrificing reliability. A 4-port transformer resonator is used to provide two differential-mode (DM) and two common-mode (CM) harmonic impedances for lower phase noise, voltage supply, and sensitivity to CM tuning. The CMOS VCO is implemented in 22nm FDSOI with a core area of 0.19 mm2. The VCO dissipates < 0.45mW from 350mV supply while achieving a peak figure-of-merit (FOM) of 192-195.8 dBc/Hz across the 20% continuous tuning range of 4.06-to-4.96 GHz. To the authors knowledge, the 4-port resonator-based CMOS VCO has the highest reported FOM for oscillators with sub-0.5mW power consumption and the lowest supply voltage (350mV) for complementary designs.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122786801","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 Quadrature Class-G Complex-Domain Doherty Digital Power Amplifier","authors":"Shih-Chang Hung, Si-Wook Yoo, Sang-Min Yoo","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701789","url":null,"abstract":"An efficient digital quadrature power amplifier is presented. It shows a good system efficiency (SE) at back-off, demonstrating four efficiency peaks with the combination of a dual-supply Class-G and complex-domain Doherty (CDD) in the IQ plane. The proposed digital quadrature transmitter in 65-nm CMOS demonstrates 27.8-dBm peak output power (Pout) with a peak SE of 32.1%. For an 802.11ax 40-MHz (20-MHz) 1024-QAM OFDM signal with 13.1-dB (12.4-dB) peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), it demonstrates an error vector magnitude (EVM) of -42.0 dB (-43.3 dB) at an average Pout of 14.7 dBm (15.4 dBm). The average SE measured with a 20-MHz single-carrier 1024-QAM signal with 6.8-dB PAPR at 21-dBm Pout is 18.4%.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"48 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131579624","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}
Run Levinger, D. Ben-Haim, I. Gertman, S. Bershansky, R. Levi, J. Kadry, G. Horovitz
{"title":"X-band NMOS and CMOS Cross-Coupled DCO’s with a “Folded” Common-Mode Resonator Exhibiting 188.5 dBc/Hz FoM with 29.5% Tuning Range in 16-nm CMOS FinFet","authors":"Run Levinger, D. Ben-Haim, I. Gertman, S. Bershansky, R. Levi, J. Kadry, G. Horovitz","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701820","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents two X-band state of the art digitally controlled oscillators (DCO’s), one utilizes CMOS and the other NMOS as cross-coupled pairs. Both designs include a \"folded\" common-mode resonator in order to enhance performance while minimizing the required area. The implemented DCO’s cover 9 to 12.1 GHz and 9.3 to 12.4 GHz for the NMOS and CMOS designs respectively, achieving a frequency tuning range (FTR) of 29.5%. Measured phase noise referred to 6.1 GHz and at 1 MHz offset is −118.5 and -114 dBc/Hz for NMOS and CMOS respectively. The NMOS design consumes 3.6 mW while the CMOS design consumes 1.1 mW both from a 0.8 V supply, obtained figure of merit (FoM) for both designs is higher than 188.5 dBc/Hz. Both designs are very compact with an area less than 0.054 mm2.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123776918","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}
Guoxiang Han, Tanbir Haque, Matthew Bajor, John Wright, P. Kinget
{"title":"A 0.3-to-1.3GHz Multi-Branch Receiver with Modulated Mixer Clocks for Concurrent Dual-Carrier Reception and Rapid Compressive-Sampling Spectrum Scanning","authors":"Guoxiang Han, Tanbir Haque, Matthew Bajor, John Wright, P. Kinget","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701751","url":null,"abstract":"A flexible RF receiver is introduced that uniquely uses CW-modulated clocks for the down-conversion mixers in its mixer-first and low-noise transconductance branches, thereby enabling tuned matching and reception concurrently at two RF carriers. Turning off the modulation reverts the receiver back to single-carrier operation, whereas using PN sequences to modulate the mixer clocks enables rapid, wideband compressive-sampling spectrum scanning. All three functions are accomplished within a single unified architecture. A prototype of the multi-branch modulated-mixer-clock receiver was developed in 65nm CMOS and operates from 0.3 to 1.3GHz. For single-carrier reception, the receiver delivers 15MHz RF bandwidth, 42dB conversion gain, 3.3dB NF, +3.3dBm B1dB, and +12.2dBm OB-IIP3. Concurrent dual-carrier reception at 500MHz and 900MHz offers −8.4dBm B1dB and <6dB NF. In rapid CS spectrum scanning mode, the receiver achieves 66dB dynamic range with −75dBm sensitivity over a 630MHz RF span within 0.71us and consumes 18.5nJ per detected signal.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128834744","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}
Li-Xuan Chuo, Yejoong Kim, N. Chiotellis, M. Yasuda, S. Miyoshi, Masaru Kawaminami, A. Grbic, D. Wentzloff, Hun-Seok Kim, D. Blaauw
{"title":"A 4 × 4 × 4-mm3 Fully Integrated Sensor-to-Sensor Radio using Carrier Frequency Interlocking IF Receiver with -94 dBm Sensitivity","authors":"Li-Xuan Chuo, Yejoong Kim, N. Chiotellis, M. Yasuda, S. Miyoshi, Masaru Kawaminami, A. Grbic, D. Wentzloff, Hun-Seok Kim, D. Blaauw","doi":"10.1109/rfic.2019.8701759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rfic.2019.8701759","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-low power mm-scale IoT platforms enable newly emerging applications such as pervasive agricultural monitoring and bio-sensing. Although there is an increasing interest in sensor-to-sensor communication, as defined in Bluetooth v5.0, prior research in mm-scale wireless systems is mostly limited to asymmetric sensor-to-gateway communication. This paper introduces a 4×4×4 mm3 fully integrated radio system that integrates a transceiver chip, antenna, power management unit and baseband processor for sensor-to-sensor mesh networks. The proposed system uses a low power 32 kHz reference frequency and a carrier frequency interlocking IF receiver. It achieves -94 dBm sensitivity with 97 µW power consumption and -12.6 dBm EIRP for sensor-to-sensor mesh network communication.","PeriodicalId":281385,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC)","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124348289","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}