Digitally Assisted, Fully Integrated, Wideband Transmitters for High-Speed Millimeter-Wave Wireless Communication Links

Description

This book presents design methods and considerations for digitally-assisted wideband millimeter-wave transmitters. It addresses comprehensively both RF design and digital implementation simultaneously, in order to design energy- and cost-efficient high-performance transmitters for mm-wave high-speed communications. It covers the complete design flow, from link budget assessment to the transistor-level design of different RF front-end blocks, such as mixers and power amplifiers, presenting different alternatives and discussing the existing trade-offs. The authors also analyze the effect of the imperfections of these blocks in the overall performance, while describing techniques to correct and compensate for them digitally. Well-known techniques are revisited, and some new ones are described, giving examples of their applications and proving them in real integrated circuits. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 1-13 System-Level Analysis of Millimeter-Wave Wireless Links (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 15-23 Effect of Front-End Imperfections on Wideband Millimeter-Wave Signals (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 25-60 Digital Compensation and Mitigation of I/Q Gain and Phase Imbalance (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 61-115 Design Methodology for BiCMOS Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 117-133 Design of Wideband Up-Converters with Self-healing Capabilities (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 135-176 Design of High-Linearity Wideband Power Amplifiers (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 177-212 Design of Wideband Millimeter-Wave Power Detectors to Enable Self-healing and Digital Correction Capabilities (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 213-230 A Fully Integrated and Digitally Assisted BiCMOS Transmitter for a 10-Gbps Wireless Link in the E-Band (David del Rio, Ainhoa Rezola, Juan F. Sevillano, Igone Velez, Roc Berenguer)....Pages 231-249 Back Matter ....Pages 251-255