SESSION WA 19
SALON 8, Wed, 9
8:30 AM


TECHNOLOGY DIRECTIONS: HIGH-FREQUENCY WIRELESS

Chair: M. Soyuer, IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights, NY
Associate Chair: T. Baba, Panasonic Technology, Inc., Cupertino, CA


19.1 Chip-Package Co-Design of a 5GHz RF Front-End
for WLAN
8:30 AM
P. Wambacq, S. Donnay, P. Pieters 1, W. Diels, K. Vaesen,
W. De Raedt, E. Beyne, M. Engels, I. Bolsens
IMEC, Heverlee, Belgium
1also PhD student at KU Leuven, Belgium

Single-package integration of complete transceivers, based on a thin-film MCM technology (MCM-D) with integrated passives, is demonstrated with a 6.7x6.5mm 2 single-package front-end, including RF blocks and two bandpass filters for a 5GHz WLAN receiver.


19.2 5GHz CMOS Radio Transceiver Front-End Chipset
9:00 AM
T-P. Liu, E. Westerwick, N. Rohani, R-H. Yan
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

A 5GHz band radio transceiver front-end chipset for wireless LAN applications incorporates direct conversion in 0.25 um CMOS. The 4mm 2 5.25GHz receiver IC contains an LNA with 2.5dB NF and 16dB power gain, a receive mixer with 12dB SSB NF and 13.7dB voltage gain. The 2.7mm 2 transmitter IC has output 1dB compression of -2.5dBm at 5.7GHz with 33.4dB (image) sideband rejection using an integrated quadrature VCO. Receiver and transmitter consume 114mW and 120mW, respectively, from 3V.


19.3 A 2V 5.1-5.8GHz Image-Reject Receiver with Wide Dynamic Range
9:30 AM
J. Maligeorgos, J. Long
Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A monolithic 5-6GHz band receiver consisting of a preamplifier, dual doubly-balanced mixers, quadrature LO generator and prescaler, realizes over 45dB image rejection in a mature 25GHz silicon bipolar technology. The measured SSB (50 Ohm) noise figure is 5.1dB with -9.5dBm IIP3 and 15dB conversion gain at 5.3GHz. The 1.9x1.2mm 2 IC in a standard 32-pin CQFP consumes 45mW from a 2.2V supply.

BREAK 10:00 AM

19.4 Low-Cost 60GHz Band Integrated Antenna
Transmitter/Receiver Modules Utilizing Multi-Layer Low-Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic Technology
10:15 AM
K. Maruhashi, M. Ito, L. Desclos 1, K. Ikuina 2, N. Senba 2,
N. Takahashi 2, K. Ohata
Kansai Electronics Research Labs, NEC Corp., Otsu, Shiga, Japan
1C&C Media Research Labs
2Functional Materials Research Labs

Low-cost 10mW output TX/RX MCMs for 60GHz high-speed wireless networks contain flip-chip MMICs, cavity structure, embedded coplanar waveguide adapted to thick-film printing and integrated antenna on multi-layer low-temperature co-fired ceramic substrates, allowing >100Mb/s data rate.


19.5 76GHz Automotive Radar Chipset with Stabilizing Method for Face-Down High-Frequency Circuits
10:45 AM
Y. Watanabe, T. Hirose, H. Uchino 1, Y. Ohashi, S. Aoki, Y. Aoki 1,
N. Okubo
Fujitsu Labs, Ltd., Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
1Fujitsu Quantum Device Ltd.

A chipset for 76GHz FM continuous-wave radar systems uses flip-chip assembly. The circuits are stabilized and are tolerant to parasitic oscillation. The amplifier chip has 25dB gain at 76GHz with 2V supply. The chipset includes amplifiers, mixer, frequency doubler, duplexer and VCO using 0.15 um HEMT.


19.6 Wireless Interconnection in a CMOS IC with
Integrated Antennas 11:15 AM
B. Floyd, K. Kim, K. K. O
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL

A receiver with integrated linear dipole antennas for on-chip wireless interconnection consists of an antenna, LNA, buffer, and frequency divider, and is implemented in a 0.25 um CMOS process, operating at 7.4GHz. On-chip wireless transmission and reception make possible inter- and intra-chip wireless transmission.


19.7 Electromagnetically-Shielded High-Q
CMOS-Compatible Copper Inductors 11:30 AM
H. Jiang, J-L. Yeh, Y. Wang, N. Tien
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

A CMOS-compatible method fabricates on-chip suspended high-Q electromagnetically-shielded spiral inductors. Q-factor is 36 at 5.2GHz for copper-encapsulated polysilicon inductors. The copper-plated surfaces of the cavity beneath the inductor provide a good radio-frequency shield.

CONCLUSION 11:45 AM