A packaged 106–110 GHz bi-directional 10Gbps 0.11 pJ/bit/cm CMOS transceiver

A non-coherent amplitude shift keying (ASK) W-band packaged transceiver in 65 nm CMOS technology is presented. The transceiver architecture is based on an innovative bi-directional topology with a maximum data rate of 10 Gbps limited by the measurement equipment. An output power of -2.3 dBm at 107 GHz and 10 Gbps modulated signal is measured on-chip in the transmit mode. In the receive mode a BER<;10^-12 was achieved with data rates up to 8.5Gbps. The packaged transceiver demonstrates 10Gbps wireline and wireless bi-directional half-duplex communication with only 34 mW of DC power consumption. The design occupies only 0.35 mm² including pads.