ZTE Communications ›› 2016, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (S1): 20-24.doi: DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2016.S1.004

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Low-Power High-Efficiency Multi-Gigabit 60 GHz Transceiver Systems Routing in Vehicular Environments

Chul Woo Byeon1 and Chul Soon Park2   

  1. 1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Wonkwang University, Iksan 54538, Korea;
    2. Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Korea
  • Received:2016-06-15 Online:2016-12-01 Published:2019-11-29
  • About author:Chul Woo Byeon (cwbyeon@wku.ac.kr) received the PhD degree in electronic engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 2013. During 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, San Diego, USA. From 2014 to August 2015, he was a senior engineer with Samsung DMC R&D Center, Korea, where he was involved in developing a millimeter-wave/RF transceiver for 5G cellular communications. In September 2015, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Wonkwang University, Korea, where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include CMOS/SiGe millimeter-wave/RF integrated circuits, antennas, packages, and system design for wireless communications.
    Chul Soon Park (c-spark@kaist.ac.kr) received the BS degree from Seoul National University, Korea in 1980, and the MS and PhD degrees in materials science and engineering from the KAIST in 1982 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1999, he was with the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, where he contributed to the development of semiconductor devices and circuits. From 1987 to 1989, he studied the very initial growth of group IV semiconductors for laser applications during a visit to AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA. Since 1999, he has been with the Information and Communications University (which merged with KAIST in 2009), where he is a full professor with the Engineering School. His research interests include reconfigurable RF integrated circuits (RFICs), millimeterwave integrated circuits (ICs), and their system-on-chip (SoC)/system-on-package (SoP) integration.)
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (No. R11-2005-029-05001-0); the Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (13-911-04-007); and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2014R1A2A1A11054107).

Abstract: This paper proposes low-power high-efficiency multi-gigabit 60 GHz transceiver systems for short-range communications. 60 GHz multi-gigabit on-off keying (OOK) receiver system-in-package (SiP) module is developed using a low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology. Integrated with a low-power complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) OOK demodulator, the LTCC receiver module demonstrates Full-HD uncompressed video streaming at a distance of 1 m. A low-power and high-efficiency fully integrated OOK transceiver is also developed to be integrated in a handheld device. The transceiver consumes 67 mW at 10.7 Gb/ s and occupies an active footprint of 0.44 mm2. With an on-board Yagi-Uda antenna, the transceiver achieves 10.7 Gb/s of data transmission, resulting in a high energy efficiency of 6.26 pJ/bit. The antenna-in-package module with the transceiver demonstrates mobile-to-display 1080p Full-HD video transmission over a distance of 60 cm.

Key words: 60 GHz, Transceiver, on-off keying (OOK), Multi-gigabit