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A mm-Wave Switched-Capacitor RFDAC

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dc.contributor.authorHieu Minh Nguyenen
dc.contributor.authorWalling, Jeffrey Seanen
dc.contributor.authorZhu, Andingen
dc.contributor.authorStaszewski, Robert Bogdanen
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-03T19:33:52Zen
dc.date.available2022-08-03T19:33:52Zen
dc.date.issued2022-04en
dc.description.abstractThis article proposes an interleaving switched-capacitor RF digital-to-analog converter (RFDAC) using an edge combiner within the output stage to implicitly triple its effective clock carrier frequency and enable the mm-wave (mmW) operation. Tripling in the output stage allows for increased energy efficiency, which is further improved by employing an edge-combining-based frequency-tripling delay-locked loop (DLL) in the clock generation network. The clock tripling is performed in each slice of the switched-capacitor PA (SCPA), which allows yet another 3x frequency reduction for the global clock distribution. Finally, a new layout structure accounts for transmission-line (TL) effects, due to the large physical size of the passive capacitor array. Implemented in 22-nm FD-SOI, the prototype achieves ${ {{P_{ out}}}>21}$ dBm, drain efficiency >36%, and system efficiency >22% while operating in the Ka-band at 28 GHz. Modulation at 2.4 Gb/s results in 3.3% EVM and 30.8-dBc adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR).en
dc.description.notesThis work was supported in part by the Science Foundation Ireland under Grant 14/RP/I2921 and in part by the Microelectronic Circuits Centre Ireland (MCCI) through Enterprise Ireland under Grant TC-2015-0019.en
dc.description.sponsorshipScience Foundation Ireland [14/RP/I2921]; Microelectronic Circuits Centre Ireland (MCCI) through Enterprise Ireland [TC-2015-0019]en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2022.3142718en
dc.identifier.eissn1558-173Xen
dc.identifier.issn0018-9200en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/111442en
dc.identifier.volume57en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIEEEen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectSwitchesen
dc.subjectRadio frequencyen
dc.subjectPower generationen
dc.subjectCapacitorsen
dc.subjectSwitching circuitsen
dc.subjectLinearityen
dc.subjectCapacitanceen
dc.subjectClass Den
dc.subjectclock distributionen
dc.subjectdigital PA (DPA)en
dc.subjectedged combining (EC)en
dc.subjectmm-wave (mmW)en
dc.subjectpower combiningen
dc.subjectRF digital-to-analog converter (RF-DAC)en
dc.subjectswitched-capacitor power amplifier (SCPA)en
dc.subjecttransmitter (TX)en
dc.titleA mm-Wave Switched-Capacitor RFDACen
dc.title.serialIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuitsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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