Low-Power Circuits for a 2.5-V, 10.7-to-86-Gb/s Serial Transmitter in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS Timothy O. Dickson and Sorin P. Voinigescu Edward S. Rogers, Sr. Dept of ...
Outline Motivation 60-GHz Radio PA schematic Fabrication ... PA Schematic Input designed as LNA with inductive feedback Input matched by LG and LS Output ...
MIM capacitors. Addition of LE. Operation on 2nd harmonic ... Compared to a MIM capacitor, accumulation-mode nMOS varactors degrades phase noise by 1-2 dB. ...
60-GHz PA and LNA in 90-nm RF-CMOS. Terry Yao1, Michael Gordon1, Kenneth ... 2pF MIM capacitors for de-coupling. Large metal plane and ample substrate contacts ...
Highest frequency BERT test possible at the University of Toronto. 20-ft SMA cable S21 ... Measurements: BERT. 10-Gbps 20-ft SMA cable. Input Eye 20-ft SMA ...
DFE demonstrated only recently at speeds up to 10-Gbps in 0.13 mm CMOS as well ... Minimize transistor time constants, by biasing at peak ft / fmax collector ...
A circuit used to provide gain where preserving the signal-to-noise ... MOSFET has poor subthreshold performance. subthreshold. subthreshold. moderate inversion ...
Frequency Scaling and Topology Comparison of Millimeter-wave VCOs. Keith Tang. Steven Leung ... MOSFET DC, HF and noise characteristics are scalable across ...
IBM Research GmbH Zurich Research Laboratory R schlikon, Switzerland Design Techniques for Ultra-Low-Power and Compact Transceivers in CMOS Thomas Toifl, Christian ...
a custom board provided bias and control signals to set the ... the board was controlled via a laptop running a Matlab GUI. Measured Input & Output Return Loss ...
... cost, highly integrated, and capable of equalizing up to 50dB of channel losses ... Place as much equalization into the TX to ease the RX specs. 5 ...
(1) Low noise amplifier (LNA), mixer and IF amplifier (4-12 GHz) using 0.15 um ... the results of Q-band mixer. The design goal of this mixer is to operate at ...