A 60 GHz, 802.11ad/WiGig-Compliant Transceiver for Infrastructure and Mobile Applications in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS

Abstract

A fully integrated 802.11ad/WiGig compliant 60 GHz transceiver is presented in a 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology. En- compassing an area of 2.3 mm 2.16 mm 4.97 mm ,t h et r a n s - ceiver covers the entire 60 GHz band, from 57 to 66 GHz. Within this span, the RX NF, TX OP1dB, and PLL RMS jitter is better than 5.5 dB, 13.5 dBm, and 7 , respectively. The transceiver is packaged in 1) a system-in-package substrate with industry stan- dard WR-15 transition providing an approximate 1 dB insertion loss, and 2) a cost-effective 7 7m m organic BGA package with integrated transmit and recei ve antennas providing 8 dBi gain. In system-level testing, the transceiver is fully compliant with all TX EVM and RX sensitivity requirements of the WiGig standard up to the top-rate 16-QAM opera ting mode and across all stan- dard channel frequencies. Link testing over the air with the an- tenna-integrated package show sar a n g eo f5 . 9ma t4 . 6G b p sa n d over 20 m at 2.5 Gbps. This system achieves the highest perfor- mance 802.11ad/WiGig compliant wireless links of any reported single-element transceiver.