{"title":"A miniature PHEMT switched-LNA for 800 MHz to 8.0 GHz handset applications","authors":"H. Morkner, M. Frank, S. Yajima","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805250","url":null,"abstract":"A powerful monolithic integrated switched-LNA utilizing advanced pseudomorphic GaAs has been developed. The Swt-LNA covers 800 MHz to 8000 MHz but the primary application focus is 800 MHz to 2500 MHz. In gain mode the Swt-LNA operates on a single 3V supply and the current (thus output IP3) can be adjusted from 5 to 60 mA (input IP3=+1 to +15 dBm). The Swt-LNA provides a typical 1.4 dB noise figure and 14 dB gain. When the current control pin sets the LNA to 0 mA, the Swt-LNA goes automatically into bypass mode. Bypass mode has typically 2 dB loss and +35 dBm IIP3. The IC is packaged in a low cost 2 mm sq. SOT-343 plastic package. This Swt-LNA provides smaller size, lower NF, wider bandwidth, and easier usage than previously reported, similar products.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125424198","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":"Sigma-delta ADC and DAC for digital wireless communication","authors":"Zhongming Shi","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805239","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a brief overview of Sigma-Delta (/spl Sigma//spl Delta/) ADC and DAC techniques. An emphasis is given on their applications in wireless communication. It first introduces the theory and design methodology of low-power and high-resolution /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ ADCs and DACs for audio applications. The discussion then leads to high speed /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ ADCs and DACs for RF baseband channel application in wireless communication. Finally, a discussion is given on IF bandpass /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ ADCs and DACs.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"47 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114023399","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}
D. Leung, Y. Chou, C. Wu, R. Kono, J. Scarpulla, R. Lai, M. Hoppe, D. Streit
{"title":"High reliability non-hermetic 0.15 /spl mu/m GaAs pseudomorphic HEMT MMIC amplifiers","authors":"D. Leung, Y. Chou, C. Wu, R. Kono, J. Scarpulla, R. Lai, M. Hoppe, D. Streit","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805259","url":null,"abstract":"High reliability performance of a Ka-band low-noise MMIC amplifier fabricated using a 0.15 /spl mu/m production AlGaAs-InGaAs-GaAs HEMT process technology is reported. Operating at an accelerated DC bias condition of Vds=5.2 V and Ids=250 mA/mm, two-stage balanced amplifiers were lifetested at three-temperatures (T/sub ambient/=235/spl deg/C, T/sub ambient/=250/spl deg/C, and T/sub ambient/=265/spl deg/C) in air ambient. Failure time for each temperature was determined using /spl Delta/S21=-1.0 dB measured at room temperature as the failure criteria. The activation energy (Ea) is 1.6 eV, achieving a projected median-time-to-failure (MTF) of 7/spl times/10/sup 9/ hours at a 125/spl deg/C junction temperature. This is the first report of 0.15 /spl mu/m HEMT reliability based on S21 failure criteria of MMIC amplifiers under DC stress at high junction temperature in air ambient. This result demonstrates a robust HEMT technology immune to the stress effects of high electric field under high temperature operation suitable for non-hermetic commercial Ka-band applications.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115302600","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}
K. Nishikawa, K. Kamogawa, I. Toyoda, T. Tokumitsu, M. Tanaka
{"title":"C-band Si 3DMMIC transceiver for wireless applications","authors":"K. Nishikawa, K. Kamogawa, I. Toyoda, T. Tokumitsu, M. Tanaka","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805234","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a C-band Si MMIC transceiver based on 3DMMIC technology. A low-noise amplifier achieves 8 dB gain and 3 dB noise figure at 1 V collector bias voltage. A power amplifier achieves 19 dBm output power at 4 V collector bias voltage. Down- and up-converters are also presented. The fabricated MMICs achieve performance comparable with that of GaAs MESFET MMICs in the 5 GHz band despite use of a low resistivity Si wafer. The developed Si 3DMMIC with a VCO in a single 1.8 mm/spl times/1.8 mm chip enable the realization of low-cost C-band RF equipment.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125591735","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}
D. Ingram, Y.C. Chen, J. Kraus, B. Brunner, B. Allen, H. Yen, K. Lau
{"title":"A 427 mW, 20% compact W-band InP HEMT MMIC power amplifier","authors":"D. Ingram, Y.C. Chen, J. Kraus, B. Brunner, B. Allen, H. Yen, K. Lau","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805247","url":null,"abstract":"Presented is the development of a 2-stage 427 mW (26.3 dBm), 19% PAE compact W-band InP monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) power amplifier with an associated power gain of 8.9 dB. 20% PAE with output power of 407 mW (26.1 dBm) was achieved when the amplifier was biased for optimal efficiency. These MMIC amplifiers were fabricated with a 2-mil thick substrate using 0.15-/spl mu/m InGaAs/InAlAs/InP HEMT technology. InP amplifier, though operates at lower drain voltage, but it delivers compatible power with double the PAE of its GaAs counter-part.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115911821","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":"Development of three dimensional ceramic-based MCM inductors for hybrid RF/microwave applications","authors":"A. Sutono, A. Pham, J. Laskar, W. R. Smith","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805265","url":null,"abstract":"We present the design, development and characterization of planar and multilayer (3-D) inductor structures fabricated on a multi-layer ceramic-based Multi-Chip-Module (MCM-C) technology. We experimentally demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing both planar and compact 3-D helical inductors for hybrid RF and microwave system implementation. For the same numbers of turns and dimensions as the conventional planar inductor, the 3-D helical inductors occupies significantly less area and demonstrate better quality (Q) factor, higher inductance and comparable self resonant frequency (SRF).","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121206660","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":"CMOS RF: (still) no longer an oxymoron","authors":"T. Lee","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805227","url":null,"abstract":"As CMOS continues to evolve along predicted trajectories, its suitability for RF applications only improves. Peak device f/sub T/ is /spl sim/40 GHz for 0.25 /spl mu/m technology and should double roughly every three years if established trends continue. The growing number of interconnect layers benefits passive components as well, such as lateral flux (e.g., fractal) capacitors, accumulation-mode varactors, and shielded inductors and transformers. Coplanar waveguides of reasonable quality are enabled also, and were recently used in a distributed amplifier with a 23 GHz unity-gain frequency, and in a 17 GHz distributed oscillator. Device F/sub min/ is well under 0.5 dB at 1-2 GHz, allowing practical LNA NFs in the /spl sim/1 dB range on <10 mW of power, while new insights into device noise scaling have eased concerns about hot carrier noise enhancement. Exploitation of a new phase noise theory has allowed a 1.8 GHz oscillator to exhibit under -121 dBc/Hz phase noise @600 kHz offset, with on-chip spiral inductors and 6 mW of power, by using symmetry to suppress the effect of 1/f device noise. The 17 GHz distributed oscillator also achieves a phase noise better than -110 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz on 52 mW of power. These developments have most recently resulted in a 0.25 /spl mu/m 5 GHz LNA/mixer/synthesizer that exhibits 5 dB overall NF and -2 dBm IIP3 on 45 mW of power.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114361932","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":"The MSM3000/sup TM/ dual-mode CDMA+AMPS ASIC: for increased functionality and standby time of handsets","authors":"B. Butler, N. Yu","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805241","url":null,"abstract":"The MSM3000 dual mode ASIC for digital baseband processing within CDMA cellular handsets is a significant leap forward in functionality. The improvements include an upgraded microprocessor, several standby time improvements, an upgraded vocoder DSP to allow for cost effective EVRC, and support for multiple code channel reception for packet data service speeds up to 86.4 kbps in the forward direction per new TIA standards.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132647215","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}
K. Rovos, F. Ali, C. Wakeham, B. Khabbaz, M. Murphy, K. Harrington
{"title":"2.7 volt performance of high dynamic range receiver ICs for dual-band CDMA handsets","authors":"K. Rovos, F. Ali, C. Wakeham, B. Khabbaz, M. Murphy, K. Harrington","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805242","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design and performance of two highly integrated receiver ICs developed for the CDMA mobile handset. The receivers operate at 2.7 volt from a single supply and are designed for low noise figure and high IP3 in order to meet the stringent requirements of IS-98 and J-STD-018. The first IC operates in the cellular band (800 MHz) while the other one operates in the PCS band (1900 MHz).","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"665 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116100255","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. Madihian, L. Desclos, T. Drenski, Y. Kinoshita, H. Fujii, T. Yamazaki
{"title":"CMOS RF ICs for 900 MHz-2.4 GHz band wireless communication networks","authors":"M. Madihian, L. Desclos, T. Drenski, Y. Kinoshita, H. Fujii, T. Yamazaki","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.1999.805229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.1999.805229","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper concerns with the design consideration and performance results for a series of CMOS RF ICs for 900 MHz-2.4 GHz wireless access front-end application. Developed ICs include an antenna switch, RF amplifier, down- and up-mixers, IF amplifier, driver amplifier, as well as transceiver chips incorporating these ICs using a 0.25 /spl mu/m CMOS process. These ICs operate with a supply voltage higher than 4 V and a current of 2-4 mA per transistor. Without utilizing any off-chip matching, a transceiver chip possesses down- and up-conversion gains higher than 40 dB, 32 dB, and 25 dB, at 900 MHz, 1.9 GHz, and 2.4 GHz, respectively, representing applicability of CMOS technology for the 900 MHz-2.4 GHz frequency band.","PeriodicalId":447109,"journal":{"name":"1999 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (Cat No.99CH37001)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114674581","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}