Progress toward a low-cost millimeter-wave silicon radio
- 18 January 2006
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 08865930,p. 558-565
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cicc.2005.1568731
Abstract
This paper discusses the circuits, packaging, and antennas needed to realize a low-cost millimeter-wave transceiver with integrated antenna in silicon technology. The principal application envisioned is in high-speed 60-GHz wireless networks, but the concepts may be applicable to other products as well, such as 77-GHz radar sensors. Circuit results are presented for both 60 and 77 GHz, including an LNA, a highly-integrated direct downconverter, a mixer for a superheterodyne receiver, and a power amplifier. Packaging issues which arise at millimeter-wave frequencies are discussed, and a packaging approach involving a Si IC and a planar antenna in the same package is described. Measurement results for a planar Vivaldi antenna are presented as an example.Keywords
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