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A Fully Integrated 60 GHz Transmitter Front–End in SiGe BiCMOS Technology

Srdjan Glisic, Klaus Schmalz, Frank Herzel, Rouyu Wang, Mohamed Elkhouly, Yaoming Sun and Johann Christoph Scheytt

This paper was submitted for SiRF2011 .

Abstract: A fully integrated transmitter (TX) front-end for wireless communication at 60 GHz, produced in 0.25 μm SiGe:C BiCMOS technology is presented. The transmitter features a modified heterodyne topology with a sliding intermediate frequency (IF). The TX features IF I/Q mixers, an IF amplifier, a 60 GHz mixer, a phase-locked loop, an image-rejection filter and a power amplifier. The measured 1–dB compression point at the output is 12.6 dBm and the saturated power is 16.2 dBm. Error–free data transmission with a 16QAM OFDM signal and data rate of 3.6 Gbit/s (without coding 4.8 Gbit/s) over 15 m was demonstrated. This is the best reported result regarding both the data rate and transmission distance in SiGe without beamforming.

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Publications Publications, alphabetical order Publications 2008 Publications 2009 Publications 2010 Publications 2011 ICC 2009 PR 01/2009 Final Presentation	[45] A Fully Integrated 60 GHz Transmitter Front–End in SiGe BiCMOS Technology Srdjan Glisic, Klaus Schmalz, Frank Herzel, Rouyu Wang, Mohamed Elkhouly, Yaoming Sun and Johann Christoph Scheytt This paper was submitted for SiRF2011 . Abstract: A fully integrated transmitter (TX) front-end for wireless communication at 60 GHz, produced in 0.25 μm SiGe:C BiCMOS technology is presented. The transmitter features a modified heterodyne topology with a sliding intermediate frequency (IF). The TX features IF I/Q mixers, an IF amplifier, a 60 GHz mixer, a phase-locked loop, an image-rejection filter and a power amplifier. The measured 1–dB compression point at the output is 12.6 dBm and the saturated power is 16.2 dBm. Error–free data transmission with a 16QAM OFDM signal and data rate of 3.6 Gbit/s (without coding 4.8 Gbit/s) over 15 m was demonstrated. This is the best reported result regarding both the data rate and transmission distance in SiGe without beamforming.