Dissertation
LOW-POWER HIGH-DATA-RATE MILLIMETER-WAVE TRANSCEIVER FOR WIRELESS NETWORK-ON-CHIP APPLICATIONS
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2014
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/112113
Abstract
The Network-on-Chip (NoC) has been proposed as an enabling methodology to integrate many embedded cores on a single die. The existing method of implementing a NoC with planar metal interconnects is deficient due to high latency and significant power consumption arising from multi-hop links used in data exchanges. The millimeter (mm)-wave wireless NoC (WiNoC) is envisioned as a potential solution to these bottlenecks by replacing multi-hop wired paths with high-bandwidth, single-hop, long-range wireless links in mm-wave frequency. The WiNoC architecture necessitates a highly efficient wireless transceiver that can communicate at a data rate of tens of Gb/s.
This dissertation presents the design of a 60-GHz on-off keying (OOK) transceiver for the WiNoC application, from architecture-level design and simulation to circuit design, analysis, simulation, and measurement. Aiming at an intra-chip communication distance of 20 mm, the transmitter consists of a drive amplifier (DA), a high-speed OOK modulator, and a transformer-coupled voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). For high efficiency, a common-source topology with drain-to-gate neutralization technique is chosen for the DA. The bulk-driven OOK modulator employs novel dual feedthrough cancellation technique, resulting in a 30-dB on-off ratio. At the receiver side, the high data rate is supported by a wideband LNA with novel feed-forward technique, a dual gain-boosted envelope detector, and a baseband peaking amplifier with actively-enhanced tunable inductor load. It is demonstrated through on-wafer measurement that the proposed 60-GHz OOK transceiver fabricated in a 65-nm standard CMOS process outperforms the existing designs in terms of both data rate and bit-energy efficiency, and can therefore provide a feasible low-power area-efficient solution for the WiNoC in future multi-core processors
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- Title
- LOW-POWER HIGH-DATA-RATE MILLIMETER-WAVE TRANSCEIVER FOR WIRELESS NETWORK-ON-CHIP APPLICATIONS
- Creators
- Xinmin Yu
- Contributors
- Deukhyoun Heo (Advisor)Partha P Pande (Committee Member)Benjamin Belzer (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 96
- Identifiers
- 99900581443601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation