Receive and Transmit Beamforming SiGe BiCMOS ICs for Scalable E-Band Phased Arrays

Mikko Varonen; Antti Lamminen; Mikko Kantanen; Jan Holmberg; Arto Rantala; Manu Lahdes; Jussi Säily; Dristy Parveg; Mikko Kaunisto; Jouko Aurinsalo

doi:10.23919/EuMC50147.2022.9784382

Receive and Transmit Beamforming SiGe BiCMOS ICs for Scalable E-Band Phased Arrays

Mikko Varonen, Antti Lamminen, Mikko Kantanen, Jan Holmberg, Arto Rantala, Manu Lahdes, Jussi Säily, Dristy Parveg, Mikko Kaunisto, Jouko Aurinsalo

BA6207 Integrated circuits

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This paper presents E-band 4 and 16 element receive (RX) and transmit (TX) phase shifter ICs for a scalable RF beamforming architecture. The chips are fabricated in an 0.13-µm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The TX/RX vector-modulator based phase shifters have an 8-bit resolution. Based on on-wafer measurements at 75 GHz, the 4-element RX phased-array chip achieves a single channel measured maximum gain of 18 dB for the 0 to 360 degree phase range with a simulated noise figure of around 10 dB. The 4-element TX has a single channel measured maximum gain of 16 dB for the full phase range including an on-chip power divider with a simulated 1-dB output compression point of -0.5 dBm. The 16-channel beamforming chips are based on the 4-channel sub-arrays with on-chip power splitting/combining. The power consumption for a single RX and TX phase shifter channel is 115 and 142 mW, respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	273-276
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-2-87487-063-7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-4721-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/EuMC50147.2022.9784382
Publication status	Published - 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Apr 2022 → 6 Apr 2022

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Conference	51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	4/04/22 → 6/04/22

Keywords

Phased arrays
Radio frequency
Semiconductor device measurement
Microwave integrated circuits
Phase measurement
Array signal processing
Phase shifters
phased arrays
flip-chip
beamforming
monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)
vector modulators

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Varonen, M., Lamminen, A., Kantanen, M., Holmberg, J., Rantala, A., Lahdes, M., Säily, J., Parveg, D., Kaunisto, M., & Aurinsalo, J. (2021). Receive and Transmit Beamforming SiGe BiCMOS ICs for Scalable E-Band Phased Arrays. In 2021 51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021 (pp. 273-276). Article 9784382 IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuMC50147.2022.9784382

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Receive and Transmit Beamforming SiGe BiCMOS ICs for Scalable E-Band Phased Arrays. / Varonen, Mikko ; Lamminen, Antti ; Kantanen, Mikko et al.
2021 51st European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2021. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2021. p. 273-276 9784382.

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