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

doi:10.1109/MWSYM.2017.8058920

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

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California at Los Angeles
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Broadcom Corporation
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

13 Scopus citations

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 language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017
Pages	1535-1538
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509063604
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2017.8058920
State	Published - 4 Oct 2017
Event	2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017 - Honololu, United States Duration: 4 Jun 2017 → 9 Jun 2017

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

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Conference	2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honololu
Period	4/06/17 → 9/06/17

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

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

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Kim, Y., Du, Y., Tang, A., Zhao, Y., Lee, B., Chen, H. N., Jou, C., Cong, J., Itoh, T., & Chang, M. C. F. (2017). A 125GHz transceiver in 65nm CMOS assembled with FR4 PCB antenna for contactless wave-connectors. In 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017 (pp. 1535-1538). Article 8058920 (IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest). https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2017.8058920

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2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017. 2017. p. 1535-1538 8058920 (IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest).

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