CMOS RF integrated circuits at 5 GHz and beyond

TH Lee, SS Wong - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2000‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A strong demand for wireless products, an insatiable thirst for spectrum that pushes carrier
frequencies ever upward, and the constant quest for higher performance at lower power and …

A 60-GHz CMOS receiver front-end

B Razavi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2005‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unlicensed band around 60 GHz can be utilized for wireless communications at data
rates of several gigabits per second. This paper describes a receiver front-end that …

Rotary traveling-wave oscillator arrays: A new clock technology

J Wood, TC Edwards, S Lipa - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2001‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rotary traveling-wave oscillators (RTWOs) represent a new transmission-line approach to
gigahertz-rate clock generation. Using the inherently stable LC characteristics of on-chip …

A 3-GHz 32-dB CMOS limiting amplifier for SONET OC-48 receivers

E Sackinger, WC Fischer - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2000‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A CMOS limiting amplifier with a bandwidth of 3 GHz, a gain of 32 dB, and a noise figure of
16 dB is described. The amplifier is fabricated in a standard 2.5-V 0.25-/spl mu/m CMOS …

A 300-GHz fundamental oscillator in 65-nm CMOS technology

B Razavi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fundamental oscillators prove the existence of gain at high frequencies, revealing the speed
limitations of other circuits in a given technology. This paper presents an oscillator topology …

A fully integrated 0.5-5.5 GHz CMOS distributed amplifier

BM Ballweber, R Gupta… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2000‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully integrated 0.5-5.5-GHz CMOS-distributed amplifier is presented. The amplifier is a
four stage design fabricated in a standard 0.6-/spl mu/m three-layer metal digital-CMOS …

A 10-GHz global clock distribution using coupled standing-wave oscillators

F O'Mahony, CP Yue, MA Horowitz… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2003‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A global clock network that incorporates standing waves and coupled oscillators to distribute
a high-frequency clock signal with low skew and low jitter is described. The key design …

A 0.5-8.5 GHz fully differential CMOS distributed amplifier

HT Ahn, DJ Allstot - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2002‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully integrated fully differential distributed amplifier with 5.5 dB pass-band gain and 8.5
GHz unity-gain bandwidth is described. The fully differential CMOS circuit topology yields …

A 0.6-22-GHz broadband CMOS distributed amplifier

RC Liu, KL Deng, H Wang - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated …, 2003‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A CMOS distributed amplifier (DA) covering 0.6 to 22 GHz is presented in this paper.
Cascode gain cells and m-derived matching sections are used to enhance the gain and …

Prospects of CMOS technology for high-speed optical communication circuits

B Razavi - IEEE journal of solid-state circuits, 2003‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the capabilities of deep-submicron CMOS technologies for the
realization of highly integrated optical communication transceivers in the range of tens of …