1. A CMOS Fully Integrated 120-Gbps RF-64QAM F-band Transmitter with an On-Chip Antenna for 6G Wireless Communication
- Author
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Wang, Zisong, Wang, Huan, Hassan, Youssef O, and Heydari, Payam
- Subjects
6G ,mm-wave ,RF-64QAM ,transmitter ,Theory Of Computation ,Engineering ,Information and Computing Sciences ,Communications Engineering ,Electrical Engineering ,Electronics ,Sensors and Digital Hardware ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Other Technology ,Electrical & Electronic Engineering ,Electronics ,sensors and digital hardware - Abstract
This paper presents a single-chip bits-to-antenna transmitter (TX) for >100 Gbps in 45nm CMOS SOI. The construction of the 64QAM constellation is achieved directly in the RF domain by utilizing three QPSK sub-TXs with weighted amplitude. This method significantly reduces the need to address power amplifier nonlinear effects in high-order modulation, thereby creating room for TX enhancements in both bandwidth and output power. To further improve TX performance, multi-step phase alignment strategies, and a local oscillator leakage suppression technique have been incorporated. With 40-GHz RF bandwidth, the RF-64QAM TX prototype is able to achieve a measured data rate of 120 Gbps with 15dBm effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP).
- Published
- 2024