A Fully Integrated 60GHz Four Channel CMOS Receiver with 7GHz Ultra-Wide Bandwidth for IEEE 802.11ad Standard

• Published in: China communications Vol. 11; no. 6; pp. 42 - 50
• Main Authors: Lei, Zhang, Chunyuan, Zhou, Hongrui, Wang, Yan, Wang, He, Qian, Zhiping, Yu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China Institute of Communications 01.06.2014; Institutc of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
• Subjects: 60GHz; CMOS; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; CMOS技术; four channel; IEEE; LNA; Noise figure; Radio frequency; receiver; Receivers; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; 低噪声放大器; 全集成; 四通道; 接收器; 标准; 超宽带; 60GHz; CMOS; receiver; four channel; LNA
• ISSN: 1673-5447
• DOI: 10.1109/CC.2014.6879002

In this paper, a fully integrated CMOS receiver frontend for high-speed short range wireless applications centering at 60GHz millimeter wave （mmW） band is designed and implemented in 90nm CMOS technology. The 60GHz receiver is designed based on the super-heterodyne architecture consisting of a low noise amplifier （LNA） with inter-stage peaking technique, a single- balanced RF mixer, an IF amplifier, and a double-balanced I/Q down-conversion IF mixer. The proposed 60GHz receiver frontend derives from the sliding-IF structure and is designed with 7GHz ultra-wide bandwidth around 60GHz, supporting four 2.16GHz receiving channels from IEEE 802.1lad standard for next generation high speed Wi- Fi applications. Measured results show that the entire receiver achieves a peak gain of 12dB and an input 1-dB compression point of -14.SdBm, with a noise figure of lower than 7dB, while consumes a total DC current of only 60mA from a 1.2V voltage supply.