This paper presents a 39 GHz front-end module (FEM) in 22 nm FD-SOI technology for 5G communications. The PA output stage uses a 2-stacked FET topology to achieve high output power. A two-way current combiner is used to combine output power from the output stage while maintaining a uniform waveform distribution over each transistor unit cell to enhance the device reliability. The LNA consists of two stages to obtain high power gain with low power consumption. Derivative-superposition (DS) with a common-mode inductor is used to improve the LNA linearity. The measured Psat and PAEmax in TX mode are 20.4 dBm and 25.6%, respectively. The measured NF and IIP3 in RX mode are 5.7 dB and -13 dBm, respectively. A Pout, avg of 13.5 dBm and a PAEavg of 10.6% is achieved in 64-QAM 400 MSym/s single-carrier at EVMrms of -25 dB for TX-mode.
Zong, Z, Nguyen, J, Liu, Y, Zhang, Y , Tang, X , Mangraviti, G & Wambacq, P 2021, A 39GHz T/R front-end module achieving 25.6% PAEmax, 20dBm Psat, 5.7dB NF, and -13dBm IIP3 in 22nm FD-SOI for 5G communications . in 2021 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2021. , 9490466, 2021 IEEE RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS SYMPOSIUM (RFIC), IEEE, pp. 23-26, 2021 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), Atlanta, United States, 7/06/21 .
Zong, Z., Nguyen, J., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y. , Tang, X. , Mangraviti, G. , & Wambacq, P. (2021). A 39GHz T/R front-end module achieving 25.6% PAEmax, 20dBm Psat, 5.7dB NF, and -13dBm IIP3 in 22nm FD-SOI for 5G communications . In 2021 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2021 (pp. 23-26). [9490466] (2021 IEEE RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS SYMPOSIUM (RFIC)). IEEE.
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title = " A 39GHz T/R front-end module achieving 25.6% PAEmax, 20dBm Psat, 5.7dB NF, and -13dBm IIP3 in 22nm FD-SOI for 5G communications " ,
abstract = " This paper presents a 39 GHz front-end module (FEM) in 22 nm FD-SOI technology for 5G communications. The PA output stage uses a 2-stacked FET topology to achieve high output power. A two-way current combiner is used to combine output power from the output stage while maintaining a uniform waveform distribution over each transistor unit cell to enhance the device reliability. The LNA consists of two stages to obtain high power gain with low power consumption. Derivative-superposition (DS) with a common-mode inductor is used to improve the LNA linearity. The measured Psat and PAEmax in TX mode are 20.4 dBm and 25.6%, respectively. The measured NF and IIP3 in RX mode are 5.7 dB and -13 dBm, respectively. A Pout, avg of 13.5 dBm and a PAEavg of 10.6% is achieved in 64-QAM 400 MSym/s single-carrier at EVMrms of -25 dB for TX-mode. " ,
author = " Zhiwei Zong and Johan Nguyen and Yao Liu and Yang Zhang and Xinyan Tang and Giovanni Mangraviti and Piet Wambacq " ,
note = " Publisher Copyright: { extcopyright} 2021 IEEE. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. 2021 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) Conference date: 07-06-2021 Through 09-06-2021 " ,
year = " 2021 " ,
month = jun,
day = " 7 " ,
doi = " 10.1109/RFIC51843.2021.9490466 " ,
language = " English " ,
series = " 2021 IEEE RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS SYMPOSIUM (RFIC) " ,
publisher = " IEEE " ,
pages = " 2326 " ,
booktitle = " 2021 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC 2021 " ,
url = " https://rfic-ieee.org/ " ,
}