Layout and Measurements at 60 GHz

Pooyan Sakian; Reza Mahmoudi; Arthur van Roermund

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-2122-1_3

Layout and Measurements at 60 GHz

Pooyan Sakian
, Reza Mahmoudi
, Arthur van Roermund

Integrated Circuits

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Abstract

In this chapter the layout procedure, layout challenges, and measurement setups for 60 GHz circuits designed in this work are explained. Millimeter-wave integrated circuits face additional difficulties in circuit design, layout, and measurement, as compared to their lower frequency counterparts. The parasitic effects are so much accentuated at these frequencies that the designer is required to shift repeatedly the focus from circuit-schematic level to layout and vice versa. In fact the mm-wave circuits may fail to operate correctly just as a result of layout problems. For instance inappropriate interconnect sizing in the layout of a mm-wave voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) can cause failure of oscillation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	RF-Frontend Design for Process-Variation-Tolerant Receivers
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	3
Pages	39-59
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4614-2122-1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4614-2121-4, 978-1-4939-0223-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2122-1_3
Publication status	Published - 2012

Publication series

Name	Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
ISSN (Print)	1872-082X
ISSN (Electronic)	2197-1854

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© 2012, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Keywords

Device Under Test
Differential Circuit
Phase Noise Measurement
Signal Line
Transmission Line

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