Millimeter-Wave Transceivers in CMOS: Why and How?

Professor Behzad Razavi
UCLA Electrical Engineering

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 1:00PM

54-134 Engineering IV Building
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Abstract: The growing interest in millimeter-wave transceivers for consumer, radar, and imaging applications has motivated research on the use of CMOS technology for frequencies exceeding 60 GHz. It is envisioned that multiple sophisticated millimeter-wave transceivers capable of beamforming will be integrated on a single chip along with massive baseband processing. This talk addresses challenges that we face in the design and integration of such systems and describes new device, circuit, and architecture techniques that deal with these challenges. As a specific example, a circuit technique is introduced that leads to fundamental oscillators and frequency dividers operating up to 130 GHz in 90-nm CMOS technology.

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