A low power 60GHz OOK transceiver system in 90nm CMOS with innovative on-chip AMC antenna

Building on an efficient active and passive device modeling strategy, a 60 GHz OOK transceiver system including on-chip antenna in 90nm CMOS is designed. The key features of the circuits are small power consumption and size. With the modulator connected to an innovative artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) on-chip antenna, free space transmission at 2Gb/s is demonstrated. Also, an on-chip psuedo-link demonstrates 1Gb/s transmission, using only 26 pJ/bit for the modulator and 6 pJ/bit for the demodulator. The receiver consists of on-chip antenna, LNA with 20dB gain & 5.7dB noise figure, detector and limiting amplifier. Recovery of a 1.5Gb/s NRZ signal is demonstrated.

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