A low-power fully integrated 60GHz transceiver system with OOK modulation and on-board antenna assembly

Emerging research on 60GHz RF transceivers has demonstrated extensive usage of short-distance communications. One key application is the fast file-transfer system for consumer products, e.g., video download from a kiosk or link between a digital camera and a laptop, where high-speed (a few Gb/s) and low-power (≪0.3W) wireless communication is required for short distance (≪10cm). Existing 60GHz solutions [1] inheriting the well-developed architecture from 2.4/5GHz systems consume significant power primarily because of the interface (ADCs) and the subsequent baseband circuits (DSPs). This paper presents a compact solution for a 60GHz transceiver system including on-board antennae and on-off-keying (OOK) modulation. This prototype avoids the above issues and achieves error-free operation (BER≪10
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) for 2
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−1 PRBS of 2.5Gb/s over a distance of 4cm while consuming a total power of only 286mW.