An integrated 60GHz low power two-chip wireless system based on IEEE802.11ad standard

Abstract

This paper presents our developed two-chip wireless communication system adhering to the IEEE 802.11ad standards with a baseband IC (BBIC) integrated with a low power 60 GHz transceiver SOC (RFIC) and antennas. The novel low power 60GHz RFIC using a sub-harmonic sliding-IF scheme is fully integrated based on low cost SiGe 0.18 um BiCMOS process. The BBIC uses an adaptive time domain equalizer rather than the commonly used frequency domain equalizer to lower the requirements on power consumption.