A 640-Gb/s 4 × 4-MIMO D-Band CMOS Transceiver Chipset
Chenxin Liu, Zheng Li, Yudai Yamazaki, Hans Herdian, Chun Wang, Anyi Tian, Jun Sakamaki, Han Nie, Xi Fu, Sena Kato, Wenqian Wang, Hóngyè Huáng, Minzhe Tang, Dingxin Xu, Shinsuke Hara, Akifumi Kasamatsu, Takashi Tomura, Hiroyuki Sakai, Kazuaki Kunihiro, Atsushi Shirane, Kenichi Okada
Abstract
This work presents a D-band (110–170 GHz) CMOS transceiver (TRX) chipset that covers a 56-GHz (114–170 GHz) signal-chain bandwidth. Both the transmitter (TX) and the receiver (RX) operate as heterodyne architectures with external intermediate frequency (IF) and local oscillator (LO) signals. An eight-way low-Q power-combined power amplifier (PA), a two-way low-Q power-combined low-noise amplifier (LNA), wideband-impedance-transformation passive mixers, common-source-based cascaded distributed amplifiers (DAs), and a low-loss wideband chip-to-waveguide printed circuit board (PCB) transition are proposed with improved bandwidth and linearity to support high-order wideband quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals. The TRX chipset was fabricated using a 65-nm CMOS process. The TX achieves a 13-dBm saturated output power at 130 GHz with 1150-mW dc power. The RX achieves a 12-dB noise figure (NF) with 550-mW dc power. The proposed TRX chipset achieves a data rate of 200 Gb/s by 32QAM in the single-input-single-output (SISO) over-the-air (OTA) measurement at 0.32 m. A data rate of 150 Gb/s by 16QAM is realized with 43-dBi antennas at 15 m. Additionally, a 640-Gb/s <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4{\times }4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> OTA line-of-sight multiinput multioutput (LOS-MIMO) is demonstrated at 0.52 m.