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5G and E-Band Communication Circuits in Deep-Scaled CMOS

  • Discusses the major implication of CMOS technology scaling on mm-Wave low power circuit design
  • Includes detailed design techniques, layout implementations and design examples of state-of-the-art mm-Wave broadband quadrature oscillators, frequency dividers, low-noise amplifiers, downconverters, and highly-linear power amplifiers
  • Provide a reference work for neophytes as well as more experienced mm-Wave design engineers

Part of the book series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing (ACSP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
    Pages 1-24
  3. G\(_{m}\) Stage and Passives in Deep-Scaled CMOS

    • Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
    Pages 25-37
  4. mm-Wave LC VCOs

    • Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
    Pages 63-102
  5. mm-Wave Dividers

    • Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
    Pages 103-119
  6. mm-Wave Broadband Downconverters

    • Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
    Pages 121-151
  7. mm-Wave Highly-Linear Broadband Power Amplifiers

    • Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
    Pages 153-195
  8. Conclusion

    • Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
    Pages 197-202
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 203-205

About this book

This book discusses design techniques, layout details and measurements of several key analog building blocks that currently limit the performance of 5G and E-Band transceivers implemented in deep-scaled CMOS. The authors present recent developments in low-noise quadrature VCOs and tunable inductor-less frequency dividers. Moreover, the design of low-loss broadband transformer-based filters that realize inter-stage matching, power division/combining and impedance transformation is discussed in great detail. The design and measurements of a low-noise amplifier, a downconverter and a highly-linear power amplifier that leverage the proposed techniques are shown. All the prototypes were realized in advanced nanometer scaled CMOS technologies without RF thick to metal option.

Authors and Affiliations

  • ESAT-MICAS, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert

About the authors

Marco Vigilante (S’14–M’17) was born in Carpi, Italy, in 1988. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Università di Modena, Modena, Italy, in 2010 and 2012, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, in 2017. He is currently working as a research assistant at the MICAS laboratories of the KU Leuven in the field of high performance analog building blocks for mm-Wave transceivers designed in deep-scaled CMOS. Mr. Vigilante was the recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award for 2016-2017 and the 2017 IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award–3rd Place.

Patrick Reynaert was born in Wilrijk, Belgium, in 1976. He received the Master of Industrial Sciences in Electronics (ing.) from the Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerpen, Belgium in 1998 and both the Master of Electrical Engineering (ir.) and the Ph.D. in Engineering Science (dr.) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Belgium in 2001 and 2006 respectively. From 2001 to 2006, he was a Teaching and Research Assistant within the MICAS research group of the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), K.U.Leuven, Belgium. While working towards his Ph.D. degree, his main research focus was on CMOS RF power amplifiers and analog circuit design for mobile and wireless communications. From 2001 to 2006, he was also a Lector at ACE-Group T Leuven, Belgium where he taught several undergraduate courses on electronic circuit design. During 2006-2007, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. At the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, he was working on mm-wave CMOS integrated circuits within the group of Prof. Ali Niknejad. For this research, he received a Francqui Foundation fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation. During the summer of 2007, he was a visiting researcher at Infineon, Villach, Austria where he worked on the linearization of basestation power amplifiers. Since October 2007, he is a Professor at KU Leuven, department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) and a staff member of the ESAT-MICAS research group. His main research interests include mm-wave and sub-THz CMOS circuit design and RF power amplifiers. Patrick Reynaert is a Senior Member of the IEEE and chair of the IEEE SSCS Benelux Chapter. He serves or has served on the technical program committees of several international conferences including the ISSCC-SRP, IEDM, ESSCIRC, RFIC and PRIME. He has served as Associate Editor for TCAS-I and as Guest Editor for JSSC. In 2011, he received the TSMC-Europractice Innovation Award. He is co-recipient of the ESSCIRC-2011 Best Paper Award. In 2014, he received the 2nd prize of the Bell Labs Prize.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: 5G and E-Band Communication Circuits in Deep-Scaled CMOS

  • Authors: Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert

  • Series Title: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72646-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72645-8Published: 15 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89192-7Published: 06 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72646-5Published: 07 February 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1872-082X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-1854

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 205

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 148 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electronic Circuits and Devices, Processor Architectures

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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