An Integrated 5 GHz Wideband Quadrature Modem in SiGe:C BiCMOS Technology

This paper presents a wideband I/Q upconverter and an I/Q downconverter for the 5 GHz band, which are integrated with a programmable 5 GHz phase-locked loop for I/Q generation. The quadrature signals are derived from a 10 GHz CMOS VCO followed by a bipolar frequency divider. The image rejection of the upconverter is as low as -38 dBc for an input frequency of 100 MHz. Phase noise at 1 MHz at the upconverter output is below -112 dBc/Hz. The two chips were produced in a 0.25 mum SiGe BiCMOS technology. They will be part of an integrated heterodyne 60 GHz wideband transceiver with 1 Gbit/s data rate

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