A Wideband IF Receiver Module for Flexibly Scalable mmWave Beamforming Combining and Interference Cancellation

Rehman Akbar, Eric A.M. Klumperink, Nuutti Tervo, Muhammad. Y. Javed, Kari Stadius, Aarno Parssinen

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    Abstract

    Large-scale phased arrays need to combine weighted signals from multiple sub-arrays either in analog or in digital domain. Sub-arrays are preferably implemented modularly with integrated circuits placed next to the associated antennas. In order to enable flexible and scalable combining networks of several mmWave sub-arrays, this paper presents a wideband receiver module that provides the cartesian combining of beamforming weights for one sub-array at IF. Furthermore, it allows interference cancellation between subarrays or combining multiple sub-arrays. It also provides filtering before ADCs to support current and foreseeable 5G channel bandwidths up to 800MHz. The receiver is operating at 2-4GHz IF frequency range and has more than 400MHz baseband bandwidth, a noise-figure of 5.5dB, -6dBm 1dB compression point and +3dBm in-band IIP3. In addition, overthe- air measurements are performed, showing 26dB of interference cancellation between the sub-arrays. The prototype is implemented using 45nm CMOS PDSOI.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationESSCIRC 2019 - IEEE 45th European Solid State Circuits Conference
    Place of PublicationCracow, Poland
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages213-216
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-1550-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2019
    Event45th European Solid State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2019 - Krakow, Poland
    Duration: 23 Sept 201926 Sept 2019
    Conference number: 45
    https://esscirc-essderc2019.org/

    Conference

    Conference45th European Solid State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2019
    Abbreviated titleESSCIRC 2019
    Country/TerritoryPoland
    CityKrakow
    Period23/09/1926/09/19
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    Keywords

    • Phased array
    • Beamforming
    • Phase shifter
    • Complex multiplication
    • Inter-beam interference cancellation

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