A 60 GHz CMOS I/Q Receiver for High-Speed Wireless Communication System

Abstract

This paper presents a 60 GHz CMOS I/Q receiver for the high-speed wireless communication system. It consists of a low noise amplifier, single-to-differential (S2D) amplifier, passive mixer, buffer amplifier with passive I/Q generator, and wideband baseband amplifier (BBA) stage. The measured conversion gain of 51 dB is achieved. The baseband bandwidth of 300 MHz is achieved from 57 GHz to 60 GHz. The 90° tandem coupler was implemented for I/Q signal generation, which has a phase error of 2, including the pads. The circuit is operated from a 0.9 V supply. The power consumption is 172 mW at maximum gain mode.

Keywords

• 60 GHz
• 802.11ad
• WiGig
• I/Q receiver
• millimeter wave