A 640-Gb/s 4 × 4-MIMO D-Band CMOS Transceiver Chipset
This work presents a D-band (110–170 GHz) CMOS transceiver (TRX) chipset that covers a 56-GHz (114–170 GHz) signal-chain bandwidth. Both the transmitter (TX) and the receiver (RX) operate as heterodyne architectures with external intermediate frequency (IF) and local oscillator (LO) signals. An eight-way low-Q power-combined power amplifier (PA), a two-way low-Q power-combined low-noise amplifier (LNA), wideband-impedance-transformation passive mixers, common-source-based cascaded distributed amplifiers (DAs), and a low-loss wideband chip-to-waveguide printed circuit board (PCB) transition are proposed with improved bandwidth and linearity to support high-order wideband quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals. The TRX chipset was fabricated using a 65-nm CMOS process. The TX achieves a 13-dBm saturated output power at 130 GHz with 1150-mW dc power. The RX achieves a 12-dB noise figure (NF) with 550-mW dc power. The proposed TRX chipset achieves a data rate of 200 Gb/s by 32QAM in the single-input-single-output (SISO) over-the-air (OTA) measurement at 0.32 m. A data rate of 150 Gb/s by 16QAM is realized with 43-dBi antennas at 15 m. Additionally, a 640-Gb/s <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4{\times }4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> OTA line-of-sight multiinput multioutput (LOS-MIMO) is demonstrated at 0.52 m.
Authors
- Hiroyuki Sakai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7144-1549)
- Akifumi Kasamatsu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2217-6272)
- Xi Fu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7201-7763)
- Chenxin Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-3688)
- Takashi Tomura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9272-8298)
- Atsushi Shirane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8172-4323)
- Minzhe Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0087-4752)
- Yudai Yamazaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9061-541X)
- Kazuaki Kunihiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1163-4976)
- Sena Kato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1723-1618)
- Kenichi Okada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1082-7672)
- Jun Sakamaki
- Dingxin Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4691-2147)
- Hóngyè Huáng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6071-2075)
- Han Nie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5392-6089)
- Hans Herdian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8667-3892)
- Shinsuke Hara
- Chun Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2772-3367)
- Zheng Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-4611)
- Wenqian Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3599-4087)
- Anyi Tian
Institutions
- Institute of Science Tokyo (JP)
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
- Published
- 2024-12-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jssc.2024.3515640
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.30
Funders
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology