A fully integrated 30GHz 16-QAM single-channel phased array transmitter with 5.9% EVM at 6dB back-off

Ying Chen; Yu Pei; Domine M.W. Leenaerts

doi:10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313836

A fully integrated 30GHz 16-QAM single-channel phased array transmitter with 5.9% EVM at 6dB back-off

Ying Chen, Yu Pei, Domine M.W. Leenaerts

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Abstract

A fully-integrated 30GHz single-channel phased array transmitter is demonstrated in a 0.25-μm SiGe:C BiCMOS process. The integration covers the baseband I/Q modulation up to the RF output, including a 40GHz PLL with an ultra-low phase noise. A phase shift resolution of 10° and an amplitude resolution of 5-bit are achieved with an LO phase-oversampling vector modulator. The CSP packaged transmitter delivers a saturation output power of 10∼13dBm over 27.6∼30.3GHz. The 40GHz PLL achieves a measured integrated phase noise of 1.5° RMS from 100Hz to 10MHz and has a reference spur <-70dBc. The transmitter chip achieves an EVM of 5.9% at 6dB back-off for 40-Mb/s 16-QAM modulation. The proposed transmitter is suitable for Ka-band VSAT and back-haul point-to-point applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ESSCIRC 2015 - Proceedings of the 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference
Editors	Franz Dielacher, Wolfgang Pribyl, Gernot Hueber
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	92-95
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-7472-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-7470-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313836
Publication status	Published - 30 Oct 2015
Event	41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2015) - Graz, Austria Duration: 14 Sept 2015 → 18 Sept 2015 Conference number: 41

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Conference	41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2015)
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Graz
Period	14/09/15 → 18/09/15

Keywords

16-QAM
EVM
I/Q modulation
Ka-band
P2P
phased-array
PLL
transmitter
VSAT

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Chen, Y., Pei, Y., & Leenaerts, D. M. W. (2015). A fully integrated 30GHz 16-QAM single-channel phased array transmitter with 5.9% EVM at 6dB back-off. In F. Dielacher, W. Pribyl, & G. Hueber (Eds.), ESSCIRC 2015 - Proceedings of the 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (pp. 92-95). Article 7313836 IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313836

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Chen, Y, Pei, Y & Leenaerts, DMW 2015, A fully integrated 30GHz 16-QAM single-channel phased array transmitter with 5.9% EVM at 6dB back-off. in F Dielacher, W Pribyl & G Hueber (eds), ESSCIRC 2015 - Proceedings of the 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference., 7313836, IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway, pp. 92-95, 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC 2015), Graz, Austria, 14/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313836

A fully integrated 30GHz 16-QAM single-channel phased array transmitter with 5.9% EVM at 6dB back-off. / Chen, Ying; Pei, Yu; Leenaerts, Domine M.W.
ESSCIRC 2015 - Proceedings of the 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference. ed. / Franz Dielacher; Wolfgang Pribyl; Gernot Hueber. Piscataway: IEEE Computer Society, 2015. p. 92-95 7313836.

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