Design of an integrated 60 GHz transceiver front end in SiGe:C BiCMOS technology [Elektronische Ressource] / von Yaoming Sun

Design of an Integrated 60 GHz Transceiver Front-End in SiGe:C BiCMOS Technology Von der Fakultät für Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften und Informatikder Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität Cottbus zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften (Dr.-Ing.) genehmigte Dissertation von M.Eng. Yaoming Sun geboren am 16.11.1973 in Dongfeng (China) Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Kraemer Gutachter: Prof. Bart Nauwelaers (Katholische Universität Leuven, Belgien) Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Böck (TU Berlin) Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 25.02.2009 Design of Integrated 60 GHz Transceiver FrontEnd in SiGe:C BiCMOS Technology Yaoming Sun Abstract This thesis describes the complete design of a lowcost 60 GHz frontend in SiGe BiCMOS technology. It covers the topics of a system plan, designs of building blocks, designs of applicationboards and real environment tests. Different LNA and mixer topologies have been investigated and fabricated. Good agreements between measurements and simulations have been achieved due to the used component models. A transceiver frontend system is built based on these blocks. A heterodyne architecture with a 5 GHz IF is adopted because it is compatible with IEEE 802.11a, which allows the reuse of some building blocks to realize a 5 GHz transceiver. The transceiver chips are assembled onto application boards and connected by bondwires.