Advances in silicon phased-array receiver IC's

F.E. van Vliet; E.A.M. Klumperink; M.C.M. Soer; S.K. Garakoui; A. de Boer; A.P. de Hek; W. de Heij; B. Nauta

doi:10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259603

Advances in silicon phased-array receiver IC's

F.E. van Vliet, E.A.M. Klumperink, M.C.M. Soer, S.K. Garakoui, A. de Boer, A.P. de Hek, W. de Heij, B. Nauta

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Phased-Arrays are increasingly used, and requireSilicon implementations to result in affordable multi-beamsystems. In this paper, CMOS implementations of two novelanalogue beamforming multi-channel receivers will be presented.A narrow-band highly linear system exploiting switches andcapacitors in advanced CMOS is presented, implementing a fully passive switched capacitor vector modulator exploiting a zero-IF I/Q mixer. This technique is not applicable to very wideband phased-array receivers. These systems require true-time delay beamforming, which is implemented in the second CMOS implementation. An innovative gm-RC implementation of a truetimedelay cell is exploited in a four-channel beamformingreceiver with more than 1.5 GHz bandwidth, in a standard 0.13 urn CMOS process. Professional phased-arrays can often not live with the dynamic range limitations imposed by theseimplementations. To that end a SiGe implementation of anintegrated receiver was realized targeting a digital beamforming phased-array. Dynamic range and flexibility of use were the main driving factors. Alltogether, these results show large progress with respect to the feasibility of Silicon-based phased-array frontendimplementation for commercial as well as professionalphased-arrays.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium
Subtitle of host publication	MTT 2012, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 17-22 June 2012
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-6177-4, 978-1-4673-1086-4, 978-1-4673-1088-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-1085-7, 978-1-4673-1087-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2012.6259603
Publication status	Published - 19 Jun 2012
Event	International Microwave Symposium 2012 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 17 Jun 2012 → 22 Jun 2012

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Conference	International Microwave Symposium 2012
Abbreviated title	IMS 2012
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	17/06/12 → 22/06/12

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