An 880 / 1760 MHz Dual Bandwidth Active RC Filter for 60 GHz Applications
An active RC filters with a 880 / 1760 MHz dual bandwidth tuning ability is present for 60 GHz unlicensed band applications. A third order Butterworth low-pass filter utilizes two Cherry-Hooper amplifiers to satisfy the very high bandwidth requirements of an amplifier. The low-pass filter is fabricated in 90nm standard CMOS process. Drawing 6.7 mW from 1.2 V power supply, the low frequency gains of the filter are -2.5 and -4.1 dB, and the output third order intercept points (OIP3) are +2.2 and +1.9 dBm for the single channel and channel bonding conditions, respectively.
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[1] C. H. Park and T. S. Rappaport, "Short-range wireless communications
for next- generation networks: UWB, 60 GHz millimeter wave PAN, and
Zigbee," IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag., vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 70-78, Aug.
2007.
[2] R. C. Daniels and R. W. Heath, Jr., "60 GHz wireless communications:
Emerging requirements and design recommendations," IEEE Veh.
Technol. Mag., vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 41-50, Sept. 2007.
[3] IEEE 802.11 Committee of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE
P802.11ad™/D0.1 draft standard for information technologyÔÇöpart 11:
wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
specifications - amendment 6: enhancements for very high throughput in
the 60GHz Band, IEEE P802.11ad/D0.1, (draft amendment to IEEE Std.
802.11™-2007), June 2010.
[4] LAN/MAN Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE
standard for information technologyÔÇö part 15.3: wireless medium access
control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications for high rate
wireless personal area networks (WPANs), amendment 2:
millimeter-wave-based alternative physical layer extension," IEEE Std.
802.15.3cTM-2009 (amendment to IEEE Std. 802.15.3-2003), Oct. 12,
2009.
[5] ECMA International, "High rate 60 GHz PHY, MAC and HDMI PAL,"
Standard ECMA-387, 1st Edition, Dec. 2008. (Online) Available:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-
387.pdf
[6] WirelessHDTM, "WirelessHD specification version 1.1 overview,"
WirelessHDTM std. ver. 1.1 overview, May. 2010, (Online) Available:
http://www.wirelesshd.org/pdfs/WirelessHD-Specification-Overview-v1
.1May2010.pdf.
[7] Wireless Gigabit Allicance, "WiGig white paper: defining the future of
multi-gigabit wireless communications," July 2010, (Online) Available:
http://wirelessgigabitalliance.org/specifications/.
[8] A. M. Niknejad, "Siliconization of 60 GHz," IEEE Microwave Mag., vol.
11, no. 1, pp. 78-85, Feb. 2010.
[9] W. D. Yan and R. R. Mansour, "Tunable dielectric resonator bandpass
filter with embedded MEMS tuning elements," IEEE Trans. Microw.
Theory Tech., vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 154-160, Jan. 2007.
[10] I. Reines, A. Brown, M. El-Tanani, A. Grichener, and G. Rebeiz, "1.6-2.4
GHz RF MEMS tunable 3-pole suspended combline filter," in Proc. IEEE
MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 15-20 June 2008, pp.
133-136.
[11] N. Shigekawa, K. Nishimura, T. Suemitsu, H. Yokoyama, and K.
Hohkawa, "SAW filters composed of interdigital schottky and ohmic
contacts on AlGaN/GaN heterostructures," IEEE Electron Device Lett.,
vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 90-92, Feb. 2007.
[12] F. Shiba, M. Yamazaki, O. Iijima, and H. Yatsuda, "GPS SAW filter using
a wafer level technique," in Proc. IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 28-31
Oct. 2007, pp. 937-940.
[13] S. Park, V. W. Leung, and L. E. Larson, "An Improved Wide-Dynamic
Range Tunable RF Interference Suppression Notch Filter," in Proc. IEEE
Int. Symp. Circuits Syst. (ISCAS), May 2010, pp. 1033-1036.
[14] T. Kamgaing, R. Henderson, M. Petras, "Design of RF filters using silicon
integrated passive components," in Proc. IEEE Topical Meeting on
Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Sept. 2004, pp.
33-36.
[15] C. C. Hung, K. A. I. Halonen, and M. Ismail, "A low-voltage, low-power
CMOS fifth-order elliptic Gm-C filter for baseband mobile, wireless
communication," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol 7, no. 4,
pp. 584-593, Aug. 1997.
[16] F. Giannetti, M. Luise, and R. Reggiannini, "Mobile and personal
communications in 60 GHz band: A survey," Wirelesss Pers. Comun., vol.
10, no. 2, pp. 207-243, 1999.
[17] C. R. Anderson and T. S. Rappaport, "In-building wideband partition loss
measurements at 2.5 and 60 GHz," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 3,
no. 3, pp. 922-928, May 2004.
[18] R. Schaumann and M. V. Valkenburg, Design of Analog filters, Oxford
University Press, 2001.
[19] P. Wambacq, V. Giannini, K. Scheir, W. Van Thillo, Y. Rolain, "A
fifth-order 880MHz/1.76GHz active lowpass filter for 60GHz
communications in 40nm digital CMOS," in Proc. 2010 IEEE European
Solid-State Circuits Conference, Sept. 2010, pp. 350-353
[20] E. M. Cherry and D. E. Hooper, ÔÇÿThe design of wide-band transistor
feedback amplifier," in Proc. Inst. Elec. Eng., Feb. 1963, vol. 110, no. 2,
pp. 375-389.
[21] J. Li, F. Huang, X. Hu, and X. Tang, "A 1GHz, 68dB CMOS variable gain
amplifier with an exponential-function circuit," in Proc. Int. Sym. Signals
Systems and Electronics 2010, Sept. 2010, pp. 1-4.
[22] B. Razavi, RF microelectronics, Prentice Hall PTR, 1998.
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