A 6-Gbs Wireless Inter-Chip Data Link Using 43-GHz Transceivers and Bond-Wire An

Abstract

A 43-GHz wireless inter-chip data link including antennas, transmitters, and receivers is presented. The industry standard bonding wires are exploited to provide high efficiency and low-cost antennas. This type of antennas can provide an efficient horizontal communication which is hard to achieve using conventional on-chip antennas. The system uses binary ampli- tude shift keying (ASK) modulation to keep the design compact and power efficient. The transmitter includes a differential to single-ended