• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2011

0.25 um SiGe BiCMOS 공정을 이용하여 Ku-대역 저잡음 증폭기가 설계 및 제작되었다. 개발된 Ku-대역 저잡음 증폭기는 BiCMOS 공정의 HBT 소자를 이용하여 설계되었으며, 9~14 GHz 대역에서 2.05 dB 이하의 잡음 지수 특성과 19 dB 이상의 이득 특성을 가지고 있다. 제조 공정과 관련되어 제공된 PDK의 부정확성 및 부족한 인덕터 라이브러리를 보완하기 위하여 p-tap 값 최적화와 인덕터의 EM 시뮬레이션 기법 등을 활용하였다. 총 2회의 제작 공정을 수행하였으며, 최종 제작된 Ku-대역 저잡음 증폭기는 $0.65\;mm{\times}0.55\;mm$의 크기로 구현되었다. 특히 최종 제작된 저잡음 증폭기의 레이아웃에서 입/출력 RF Pad와 Bias Pad 등을 제외하고 약 $0.4\;mm{\times}0.4\;mm$ 정도의 크기를 갖도록 조정되어 다기능 RFIC의 증폭단으로 활용되었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.256-261
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• 2011

We demonstrate 3-Gb/s wireless link using a 60-GHz receiver front-end fabricated in $0.25-{\mu}m$ SiGe:C bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) and a mixed-mode quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) demodulator fabricated in 60-nm CMOS. The 60-GHz receiver consists of a low-noise amplifier and a down-conversion mixer. It has the peak conversion gain of 16 dB at 62 GHz and the 3-dB intermediate-frequency bandwidth of 6 GHz. The demodulator using 1-bit sampling scheme can demodulate up to 4.8-Gb/s QPSK signals. We achieve successful transmission of 3-Gb/s data in 60 GHz through 2-m wireless link.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.198-206
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• 2011

This paper presents a new programmable compensation circuit (PCC) for a System-on-Chip (SoC). The PCC is integrated with $0.18-{\mu}m$ BiCMOS SiGe technology. It consists of RF Design-for-Testability (DFT) circuit, Resistor Array Bank (RAB) and digital signal processor (DSP). To verify performance of the PCC we built a 5-GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) with an on-chip RAB using the same technology. Proposed circuit helps it to provide DC output voltages, hence, making the RF system chain automatic. It automatically adjusts performance of an LNA with the processor in the SoC when it goes out of the normal range of operation. The PCC also compensates abnormal operation due to the unusual PVT (Process, Voltage and Thermal) variations in RF circuits.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.781-789
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• 2020

In this study, an E-band low-noise amplifier (LNA) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) has been designed using silicon-germanium 130-nm bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology to suppress unwanted signal gain outside operating frequencies and improve the signal gain and noise figures at operating frequencies. The proposed impedance-controllable filter has series (R_s) and parallel (R_p) resistors instead of a conventional inductor-capacitor (L-C) filter without any resistor in an interstage matching circuit. Using the impedance-controllable filter instead of the conventional L-C filter, the unwanted high signal gains of the designed E-band LNA at frequencies of 54 GHz to 57 GHz are suppressed by 8 dB to 12 dB from 24 dB to 26 dB to 12 dB to 18 dB. The small-signal gain S₂₁ at the operating frequencies of 70 GHz to 95 GHz are only decreased by 1.4 dB to 2.4 dB from 21.6 dB to 25.4 dB to 19.2 dB to 24.0 dB. The fabricated E-band LNA MMIC with the proposed filter has a measured S₂₁ of 16 dB to 21 dB, input matching (S₁₁) of -14 dB to -5 dB, and output matching (S₂₂) of -19 dB to -4 dB at E-band operating frequencies of 70 GHz to 95 GHz.