5G and E-Band Communication Circuits in Deep-Scaled CMOS [Hardcover]

This book discusses design techniques, layout details and measurements of several key analog building blocks that currently limit the performance of 5G and E-Band transceivers implemented in deep-scaled CMOS. The authors present recent developments in low-noise quadrature VCOs and tunable inductor-less frequency dividers. Moreover, the design of low-loss broadband transformer-based filters that realize inter-stage matching, power division/combining and impedance transformation is discussed in great detail. The design and measurements of a low-noise amplifier, a downconverter and a highly-linear power amplifier that leverage the proposed techniques are shown. All the prototypes were realized in advanced nanometer scaled CMOS technologies without RF thick to metal option.

Introduction.- Gm Stage and Passives in deep-scaled CMOS.- Gain-Bandwidth Enhancement Techniques for mm-Wave fully integrated Amplifiers.- mm-Wave LC VCOs.- mm-Wave Dividers.- mm-Wave Broadband Downconverters.- mm-Wave Highly-Linear Broadband Power Amplifiers.- Conclusion.

Marco Vigilante (S14M17) was born in Carpi, Italy, in 1988. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Universit? di Modena, Modena, Italy, in 2010 and 2012, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, in 2017. He is currently working as a research assistant at the MICAS laboratories of the KU Leuven in the field of high performance analog building blocks for mm-Wave transceivers designed in deep-scaled CMOS. Mr. Vigilante was the recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award for 2016-2017 and the 2017 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award3rd Place.

Patrick Reynaert was born in Wilrijk, Belgium, in 1976. He received the Master of Industrial Sciences in Electronics (ing.) from the Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerpen, Belgium in 1998 and both thl3t