Fully Integrated Radio over Fiber Downlink for Distributed Multi-antenna Systems in 65nm CMOS

Waqas Ahmad; Anders Nejdel; Markus Törmänen; Henrik Sjöland

doi:10.1109/NEWCAS.2014.6934055

Fully Integrated Radio over Fiber Downlink for Distributed Multi-antenna Systems in 65nm CMOS

Waqas Ahmad, Anders Nejdel, Markus Törmänen, Henrik Sjöland

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Abstract

This paper presents a fully integrated downlink for low-cost remote antenna units in fiber-fed distributed multi-antenna systems. To reduce the cost of optical parts, an intermediate frequency(IF) signal is distributed over the fiber, and the circuit consists of an optical receiver, a single side-band frequency up-converting radio transmitter, and LO generation circuitry. The optical to electrical conversion gain(V/W) of the system is 59dB, and an output referred 1dB compression point of +6dBm and an OIP3 of +17dBm are measured. The SFDR of the circuit is 96.5 dBHz^2/3. The phase noise of the PLL measured at 4.2GHz is -145dBc/Hz at 20MHz offset, where as the reference spur level is -58dBc. The circuit is fabricated in a standard 65nm CMOS process and occupies just 0.8mm^2 of chip area including bond pads.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE 12th International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)
Publisher	IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	353-356
ISBN (Print)	9781479978694
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2014.6934055
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	12th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (IEEE NEWCAS) - Trois-Rivières, Canada Duration: 2014 Jun 22 → 2014 Jun 25

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Conference	12th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (IEEE NEWCAS)
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Trois-Rivières
Period	2014/06/22 → 2014/06/25

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Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

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Ahmad, W, Nejdel, A, Törmänen, M & Sjöland, H 2014, Fully Integrated Radio over Fiber Downlink for Distributed Multi-antenna Systems in 65nm CMOS. in 2014 IEEE 12th International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 353-356, 12th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (IEEE NEWCAS), Trois-Rivières, Canada, 2014/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/NEWCAS.2014.6934055

Fully Integrated Radio over Fiber Downlink for Distributed Multi-antenna Systems in 65nm CMOS. / Ahmad, Waqas; Nejdel, Anders; Törmänen, Markus et al.
2014 IEEE 12th International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 353-356.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Paper in conference proceeding › peer-review

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