System-on-chip design beyond 50 GHz

Candidate topologies and design methodologies for millimeter-wave IC building blocks such as LNAs, mixers, VCOs, and power amplifiers are discussed and recent experimental results obtained in SiGe BiCMOS and 90-nm RF CMOS technologies using inductors and transformers above 50 GHz are presented.

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