A D-band CMOS transmitter with if-envelope feed-forward pre-distortion and injection-locked frequency-tripling synthesizer

Adrian Tang, David Murphy, Frank Hsiao, Gabriel Virbila, Yen Hsiang Wang, Hao Wu, Yanghyo Kim, Mau Chung Frank Chang

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Abstract

A D-band CMOS transmitter is presented with an integrated injection-locked frequency-tripling synthesizer, digital control, and an on-chip antenna. It employs an IF feed-forward pre-distortion scheme, which improves gain compression of the transmitter to provide an overall higher linearity gain profile, allowing reduced power back-off for higher peak-to-average modulation schemes. The integrated D-band transmitter consumes 347 mW and occupies 1800 ×, 1500 μm of silicon area. The proposed transmitter delivers 0.4 dBm of effective isotropic radiated power with a saturated power on-chip of at least 12.2 dBm. The transmitter has a peak power-added efficiency (PAE) of 4.8% with power delivered to the antenna and a peak PAE of 0.31% when considering radiated power.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6355963
Pages (from-to)4129-4137
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume60
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

Keywords

  • D-band transmitter
  • digital-controlled millimeter wave
  • feed-forward linearization
  • on-chip antenna

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