Title
3.5 A 1.0-to-2.5GHz beamforming receiver with constant-Gm vector modulator consuming < 9mW per antenna element in 65nm CMOS
Author
Soer, M.C.M.
Klumperink, E.A.M.
Nauta, B.
van Vliet, F.E.
Publication year
2014
Abstract
Beamforming phased-array receivers aim to increase receiver sensitivity and reject interferers in the spatial domain [1,2]. A receiver with programmable phase shift and high linearity is crucial to cope with interference. Switched-capacitor vector modulators can provide adequate phase shift and linearity [3,4], but so far, at the cost of a high power consumption. As power consumption increases linearly with the number of antenna elements, it is one of the bottlenecks hindering commercialization of beamforming. In this paper, we demonstrate several design techniques on architectural and circuit levels, to reduce the power consumption per element, while still achieving competitive Spurious Free Dynamic Range (SFDR). © 2014 IEEE.
Subject
Physics & Electronics
RT - Radar Technology
TS - Technical Sciences
Defence Research
Defence, Safety and Security
Antenna element
Design technique
High power consumption
Receiver sensitivity
Spatial domains
Spurious free dynamic range
Switched capacitor
Vector modulators
Phase shifters
Beamforming
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/isscc.2014.6757340
TNO identifier
500748
Source
2014 61st IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ISSCC 2014, 9-13 February 2014, San Francisco, CA, 57, 66-67
Document type
conference paper