A 125GHz transceiver in 65nm CMOS assembled with FR4 PCB antenna for contactless wave-connectors

Yanghyo Kim, Yuan Du, Adrian Tang, Yan Zhao, Brian Lee, Huan Neng Chen, Chewnpu Jou, Jason Cong, Tatsuo Itoh, Mau Chung Frank Chang

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Abstract

This paper presents a millimeter-wave (125GHz) based ultra-short distance (∼2mm) contactless wave-connector (CWC) for consumer interconnect applications. Conventional high-speed connectors in interconnect standard such as USB, HDMI, DP, and Thunderbolt are not only expensive, but also suffer poor performance in both mechanical reliability and signal integrity often becoming a bottleneck in high-performance computing systems. The proposed CWC exploits a 125GHz CMOS transmitter (TX), receiver (RX), and compact FR4 PCB antenna to realize high-speed (>10Gb/s), low-cost, and energy-efficient connector solutions. An on-off keying (OOK) modulation is utilized for a non-coherent transceiver (TRX) architecture. In addition, antennas are designed on an FR4HR substrate for a compatibility with an existing infrastructure. The CMOS TX and RX is assembled with the antenna through a flip-chip process. The demonstrated CWC draws a total of 60mW of power under 1.1V supply while transferring 14Gb/s of data rate, achieving 4.28pJ/bit energy efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017
Pages1535-1538
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509063604
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Oct 2017
Event2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017 - Honololu, United States
Duration: 4 Jun 20179 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameIEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest
ISSN (Print)0149-645X

Conference

Conference2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonololu
Period4/06/179/06/17

Keywords

  • 125GHz Transceiver
  • Contactless Wave-Connector (CWC)
  • FR4 PCB Antenna
  • Flip-Chip
  • OOK modulation

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