Design and Modeling of Millimeter-wave CMOS Circuits for Wireless Transceivers

Preface. Acknowledgements. PART 1 BACKGROUND 1 A short history. 1.1 Millimeter-waves. 1.2 Birth of the transistor. 2 State-of-the-art. 3 RF CMOS IC design. 3.1 The wireless transceiver. 3.2 Design tools. 3.3 Measurement equipments. PART 2 MILLIMETER-WAVE CMOS PASSIVE DEVICES 4 On-Chip Inductor. 4.1 Physical phenomena in the on-chip inductor. 4.2 Existing inductor models. 4.3 Substrate-coupled inductor model. 4.4 Equations for the scalable model. 4.5 Experimental results. 4.6 Circuit performance. 4.6 Chapter summary. 5 On-Chip Capacitor. 5.1 Analysis of the floating shield. 5.2 Scalable circuit model. 5.3 Experimental results. 5.4 Chapter summary. 6 Transmission Lines. 6.1 Fundamentals. 6.1.1 Electric and magnetic field propagations. 6.1.2 Voltage and current wave propagations. 6.1.3 Phase velocity. 6.2 Slow-wave transmission line (SWTL). 6.2.1 Background on slow-wave research. 6.2.2 Realizing slow-wave transmission lines. 6.2.2.1 The SWTL structure. 6.2.2.2 Measurement of fabricated structures. 6.2.3 Modeling SWTL. 6.2.3.1 Equivalent circuit model. 6.2.3.2 Modeling results. 6.3 Asymmetric coaxial waveguide (ACW). 6.3.1 The ACW structure. 6.3.2 Analysis of the inductive and capacitive quality factors in transmission lines. 6.3.3 Experimental results. 6.4 Chapter summary. 7 On-Chip Balun. 7.1 Balun design. 7.2 Experimental results. 7.3 Derivations for differential-mode and common-mode response ratio. 7.4 Chapter summary. PART 3 MILLIMETER-WAVE CMOS ACTIVE CIRCUITS 8 Up-conversion mixers. 8.1 Pseudo-millimeter wave up-conversion. 8.1.1 Up-conversion mixer design methodology. 8.1.2 Stacked Marchand balun design. 8.1.3 Experimental results. 8.2 Millimeter-wave up-conversion mixer at 50 GHz. 8.2.1 Up-conversion mixer design. 8.2.1.1 Mixer topology. 8.2.1.2 Passive balun structure. 8.2.1.3 Active IF balun. 8.2.2 Experimental results. 8.3 Chapter summary. 9 Down-conversion mixer. 9.1 Mixer and slow-wave transmission lines. 9.2 Chip layout. 9.3 Experimental results. 9.4 Chapter summary. 10 RF amplifier. 10.1 Review of Conventional Design Techniques. 10.1.1 Stability. 10.1.2 Gain. 10.1.3 Noise figure. 10.2 Current-Reuse Cascade Amplifier. 10.2.1 Principles of operation. 10.2.2 Analytical expression for circuit transconductance. 10.2.3 Design of 60GHz CRCA. 10.3 Experimental results. 10.4 Chapter summary. 11 Voltage-controlled oscillator. 11.1 Design of 76 GHz VCO. 11.2 Experimental results. 11.3 Chapter summary. 12 Conclusions. References. Index.