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THURSDAY June 18, 2009
SCV Solid State Circuits Chapter
Speaker: Cristian Marcu, Berkeley Wireless Research Center
Time: Presentation at 6:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: National Semiconductor Building E Auditorium 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ssc

With mobile devices becoming more powerful and including more storage than ever before, new applications are emerging that require fast wireless data transfers while consuming very low power.? This talk will present the key design techniques and challenges in implementing a low power 90nm CMOS 60GHz transceiver that includes RF, LO, PLL and BB integrated into a single chip.? With a 1.2V supply the chip consumes 170mW while transmitting 10dBm and 138mW while receiving.? Data transmission up to 5Gbps on each of I and Q channels has been measured, as has data reception over a 1m wireless link at 4Gbps QPSK? with less than 10^-11 BER.