30Gb/s 60.2mW 151GHz CMOS Transmitter/Receiver with Digitally Pre-Distorted Current Mode PAM-4 Modulator for Plastic waveguide and Contactless Communications

Yanghyo Kim; Boyu Hu; Yuan Du; Rulin Huang; Richard Al-Hadi; Adrian Tang; Huan Neng Chen; Chewnpu Jou; Tatsuo Itoh; Mau Chung Frank Chang

doi:10.1109/mwsym.2019.8701006

30Gb/s 60.2mW 151GHz CMOS Transmitter/Receiver with Digitally Pre-Distorted Current Mode PAM-4 Modulator for Plastic waveguide and Contactless Communications

Yanghyo Kim
, Boyu Hu
, Yuan Du
, Rulin Huang
, Richard Al-Hadi
, Adrian Tang
, Huan Neng Chen
, Chewnpu Jou
, Tatsuo Itoh
, Mau Chung Frank Chang

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California at Los Angeles
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Naval Research Laboratory

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Abstract

151 GHz CMOS transmitter and receiver are presented for ultra-short distance (~1 mm) contactless connection and plastic waveguide communications. To continue to scale the communication bandwidth, the 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) is utilized by implementing a current-mode PAM-4 modulator in the transmitter. The transmitter and receiver suffer non-linear characteristics and create amplitude distortions on PAM-4 signaling. A digital pre-distortion circuit is integrated in the PAM-4 modulator to correct such system non-idealities. 151 GHz antennas are realized on FR4HR substrate and used as air-to-air/chip-to-waveguide couplers. On top of contactless connection and plastic ribbon waveguide, plastic-embedded PCB channels are introduced by exploiting copper-coated slots on PCB and plastic ribbons to communicate through PCB substrates. The transmitter and receiver are fabricated in 28-nm CMOS process. The demonstrated system consumes 60.2 mW under 1.2 V supply while transferring 30 Gb/s of PAM-4 data, achieving 2.01 pJ/bit energy efficiency.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2019
Pages	673-676
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728113098
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/mwsym.2019.8701006
State	Published - Jun 2019
Event	2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2019 - Boston, United States Duration: 2 Jun 2019 → 7 Jun 2019

Publication series

Name	IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest
Volume	2019-June
ISSN (Print)	0149-645X

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Conference	2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	2/06/19 → 7/06/19

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

151 GHz transmitter/receiver
PAM-4 modulation
contactless communication
digital pre-distortion
plastic waveguide
plastic-embedded PCB

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Kim, Y., Hu, B., Du, Y., Huang, R., Al-Hadi, R., Tang, A., Chen, H. N., Jou, C., Itoh, T., & Chang, M. C. F. (2019). 30Gb/s 60.2mW 151GHz CMOS Transmitter/Receiver with Digitally Pre-Distorted Current Mode PAM-4 Modulator for Plastic waveguide and Contactless Communications. In 2019 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2019 (pp. 673-676). Article 8701006 (IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest; Vol. 2019-June). https://doi.org/10.1109/mwsym.2019.8701006

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30Gb/s 60.2mW 151GHz CMOS Transmitter/Receiver with Digitally Pre-Distorted Current Mode PAM-4 Modulator for Plastic waveguide and Contactless Communications. / Kim, Yanghyo; Hu, Boyu; Du, Yuan et al.
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30Gb/s 60.2mW 151GHz CMOS Transmitter/Receiver with Digitally Pre-Distorted Current Mode PAM-4 Modulator for Plastic waveguide and Contactless Communications

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