Zaifeng Yang, Zhewang Ma, Luhong Zhang, Xue-xia Yang
{"title":"A novel miniature ultra-wideband microstrip filter using a short-ended interdigital coupled-line unit","authors":"Zaifeng Yang, Zhewang Ma, Luhong Zhang, Xue-xia Yang","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933262","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel miniature ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip bandpass filter is proposed. The filter consists of a short-ended interdigital coupled-line unit fed by stepped-impedance lines. Through adjusting the stepped-impedance feed lines, an ultra wide passband with equal-ripples can be obtained. The filter also has multiple transmission zeros on both sides of the passband, exhibiting favorable passband skirt property. The filter is fabricated, and its measured results show good agreement with the simulated responses.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"39 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130968605","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}
Shengxi Diao, Yunzhen Wang, Chengluan Wang, F. Lin, C. Heng
{"title":"VCO design for low-power, high-efficiency transmitter applications","authors":"Shengxi Diao, Yunzhen Wang, Chengluan Wang, F. Lin, C. Heng","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933238","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) design techniques to be used in different transmitter applications. These transmitters, with their unique specifications such as fast oscillation start-up, fast locking or proper capacitor bank design, require different VCO design considerations. We first look at a fast on-off LC-VCO used to realize OOK IR-UWB transmitter. It is implemented in 0.18μm CMOS process and achieves 2Mbps at 236μW power consumption. Next, we examine injection locking LC-VCO employed to achieve efficient QPSK/O- QPSKB modulation. Through proper capacitor bank design, an EVM of 6.4% has been demonstrated at data rate of 50Mbps with the low reported energy efficiency of 118pJ/bit. The area consumption is only 0.28mm2 in 0.18μm CMOS process.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"293 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122085673","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}
Yu Li, Fei Chen, Dang Liu, Xiaoyong Li, Yang Li, Yudong Zhang, Zhicheng Wang, W. Rhee, Zhihua Wang
{"title":"A 1.6Mb/s 3.75–4.25GHz chirp-UWB transceiver with enhanced spectral efficiency in 0.18μm CMOS","authors":"Yu Li, Fei Chen, Dang Liu, Xiaoyong Li, Yang Li, Yudong Zhang, Zhicheng Wang, W. Rhee, Zhihua Wang","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933254","url":null,"abstract":"A chirp-UWB transceiver which transmits a 1.3 bit information in a single pulse clock period by embedding pulse position information in the chirp FSK modulation is implemented in 0.18μm CMOS. A digital-intensive chirp-UWB transmitter by employing digital ramp generator and a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO) is designed. In the receiver, a dual-BPF based regenerative architecture is employed to relax the Q requirement. The proposed transceiver achieves the energy efficiency of 2.5nJ/b for the transmitter and 24.2nJ/b for the receiver at the data rate of 1.6Mb/s.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126670484","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}
Kuan Bao, Xiangning Fan, Li Tang, Zaijun Hua, Zhigong Wang
{"title":"A CMOS reconfigurable passive mixer with digitally-controllable gain","authors":"Kuan Bao, Xiangning Fan, Li Tang, Zaijun Hua, Zhigong Wang","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933250","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a reconfigurable current-commutating passive mixer for multi-standard applications. By having controllable transconductance and transimpedance stages, the gain, noise figure and linearity of the mixer can be reconfigured. Fabricated in 0.18 μm CMOS process, the mixer achieves a voltage-conversion-gain from 4 to 22 dB. The measured maximum IIP3 is 8.5 dBm and the minimum noise figure is 8.0 dB. The current consumption for a single branch (I or Q) ranges from 3.1 to 5.6 mA from a 1.8 V supply voltage. The chip occupies an area of 0.705 mm2 including pads.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132769373","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}
Y. Chen, Yizhong Yang, Longjie Du, Guangjun Xie, Xin Cheng, Maoxiang Yi
{"title":"An ultra-low quiescent current output capacitor-less low-dropout regulator with a novel slew-rate-enhanced circuit","authors":"Y. Chen, Yizhong Yang, Longjie Du, Guangjun Xie, Xin Cheng, Maoxiang Yi","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933243","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an ultra-low quiescent current output capacitor-less Low-dropout (LDO) regulator with a novel slew-rate-enhanced (SRE) circuit. By adopting the novel SRE circuit, the transient response of the regulator was improved apparently. Simulation results show that, the LDO regulator consumes a quiescent current of only 930nA at steady state.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123981131","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}
M. Deng, S. Lépilliet, F. Danneville, G. Dambrine, D. Gloria, T. Quemerais, P. Chevalier
{"title":"Uncertainties assessment of noise parameters in D- band using in situ tuner techniques","authors":"M. Deng, S. Lépilliet, F. Danneville, G. Dambrine, D. Gloria, T. Quemerais, P. Chevalier","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933261","url":null,"abstract":"When transistor noise characterization becomes a difficult task at millimeter wave range, the accuracy on the resulting noise parameters is not or poorly discussed. Within this context, this paper aims to present a methodology to estimate the uncertainties related to the extraction of the four noise parameters when using in situ tuner techniques, in the 130-170 GHz frequency range. B9MW SiGe HBT from STMicroelectonics was used as a test vehicle for the noise characterization and uncertainties assessment.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123464843","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}
Xuelong Han, Zhang Zhang, Ye Tan, Guangjun Xie, Z. Cheng
{"title":"A 13.56MHz low-voltage RF-DC rectifier with controlled Vth cancellation technique","authors":"Xuelong Han, Zhang Zhang, Ye Tan, Guangjun Xie, Z. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933259","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new RF-DC rectifier with high power conversion efficiency (PCE) at 13.56MHz, utilizing a novel controlled Vth compensation technique. Simulation results show the maximum PCE of the single-stage, 3-stage, and 5-stage rectifiers are 65.7%, 56.2%, and 50.5% with low input power of -17.64dBm, -8.86dBm, and -5.3dBm, respectively.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"393 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115222080","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":"An improved through line de-embedding method with even-odd mode measurement","authors":"Oupeng Li, Wei Cheng, Lei Wang, Haiyan Lu, R. Xu","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933256","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new S-parameter matrix calculation based de-embedding methodology. In this method, a noval even-odd mode measurement is proposed to correct the error in traditional through line de-embedding methodology. The influence of the asymmetric input and output stub is canceled. A comparison of the different de-embedding methods for active device (0.7 μm InP DHBT) are performed up to 66 GHz, the results showed that the proposed method has good accuracy and suitable for millimeter-wave (mmWave).","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128988011","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":"Differential stacked spiral inductor and transistor layout designs for broadband high-speed circuits","authors":"Quan Pan, Li Sun, C. Yue","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933266","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the customized differential stacked spiral inductor (DSSI) and transistor layout designs for broadband high-speed circuits. Compared with the inductor provided in foundry process design kits (PDK), the DSSI increases the inductance density by 3 times and at the same time enlarges the self-resonance frequency by 11.5%. The impact of different differential pair layout styles is compared with post-layout simulations. Moreover, a 4-stage ring oscillator consisting of the DSSI and the half-inter-digitated differential pair layout is fabricated in 65-nm CMOS technology to validate the effectiveness of the presented layout methods. Based on these findings, recommended layout guidelines for broadband circuits are provided.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116783422","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 3.9 mw 1–39 GHz static frequency divider employing series inductive peaking technique","authors":"Bingwei Jiang, Jun Feng, Wei Li","doi":"10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIT.2014.6933255","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a power efficient static frequency divider (SFD) for wideband operation. Series inductive peaking technique is utilized to construct broadband input network of the divider. The aspects of design using the technique are supported with exhaustive simulations. The prototyped divided-by-two frequency divider is implemented in 65 nm LP CMOS technology. Measurement results show that the divider core dissipates less than 3.3 mA average current from a 1.2 V power supply, while operating from 1 to 39 GHz with less than 0 dBm input power.","PeriodicalId":281858,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128132701","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}