Study of 28 GHz Transceiver Module Integrated With LO Source for 5G mmWave Communication

This paper describes a design of RF transceiver module for 5G communication, working in millimeter wave band of 24.25-29.5 GHz. The superheterodyne architecture, using 3.5 GHz as fixed IF, is adopted as transceiver architecture for the module, which is based on ADMV1013, ADMV1014, ADRF5020 and ADF4372 for full uplink module, downlink module functions. All these chips are studied and investigated, followed by the integration on a multi-layer PCB with FR4 and RO4350.The proposed design is a candidate unit of MIMO communication systems.