A 0.41W 34Gb/s 300GHz CMOS Wireless Transceiver

A 300GHz CMOS-only wireless transceiver that achieves a maximum data rate of 34Gb/s while consuming a total power of 0.41W from a 1V supply is introduced. A subharmonic mixer with low conversion loss is proposed to compensate the absence of the RF amplifiers in TX and RX as a mixer-last-mixer-first topology is adopted. The TRX covers 19 IEEE802.15.3d channels (13-23, 39-43, 52-53, 59).