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A 60 GHz receiver front-end with PLL based phase controlled LO generation for phased-arrays

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Summary, in English

This paper presents a front-end architecture for fully integrated 60 GHz phased array receivers. It employs LO-path beamforming using a phase controlled phase-locked loop (PC-PLL). To demonstrate the architecture a circuit is implemented featuring a two stage low noise amplifier, two cascaded active mixers, and a PC-PLL. The receiver downconverts the 60 GHz signal in two steps, using LO signals from the 20 GHz QVCO of the PLL. A differential 2nd-order harmonic is coupled from the sources of the current commutating pairs of the QVCO, feeding the LO-port of the first mixer and downconverting the 60 GHz RF signal to a 20 GHz intermediate frequency. Quadrature 20 GHz LO signals are then used in the second mixer to down-convert the IF signal to baseband. The PLL is locked to a relatively high reference frequency, 1.25 GHz, which reduces the size of the PLL loop filter and enables a compact layout. The measurements show an input return loss better than −10 dB between 57.5 and 60.8 GHz, a 15 dB voltage gain, and a 9 dB noise figure. Two-tone measurements show −12.5 dBm IIP3, 29 dBm IIP2, and −24 dBm ICP1. The PC-PLL phase noise is −105 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from a 20 GHz carrier, and the phase of the received 60 GHz signal is digitally controllable with a resolution of 3.2°, covering the full 360° range with a phase error smaller than 1°. The chip consumes 80 mA from a 1.2 V supply, and measures 1,400 μm × 660 μm (900 μm × 500 μm excluding pads) including LNAs, mixers, and PC-PLL in a 90 nm RF CMOS process.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

23-32

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volym

80

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Status

Published

Projekt

  • EIT_HSWC:RFNano RF tranceivers and nano devices

Forskningsgrupp

  • Analog RF

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0925-1030