A CMOS Temperature Compensated Log-Amp Detector

Publications of bipolar log-amp detectors for RF power detection show good temperature and RF performance. So far published CMOS log-amps fail to demonstrate accurate performance over temperature. This thesis present a temperature compensated CMOS RF power detector based on the log-amp architecture with an industry temperature range of -40 C to...

High-Aspect-Ratio CMOS add-on modules for RF passive components

Commercial wireless communication technologies stemmed mostly from the research done through and after the Second World War as outlined in Chapter 1. Earlier systems were intended for military applications, hence had very high performance and were very expensive and bulky. Later, with the dawn of commercial microwave applications, the systems...

60GHz front-end receiver chain in 90nm CMOS technology

Operation at millimeter-wave frequency, where up to 7GHz of unlicensed bandwidth is available in the 60GHz band, provides an opportunity to meet the higher data rate demands of wireless users. Advancements in silicon technology permit one to consider exploiting the 60GHz band for commercial applications (e.g., short range, wireless HDTV...