Candidate topologies and design methodologies for millimeter-wave IC building blocks such as LNAs, mixers, VCOs, and power amplifiers are discussed and recent experimental results obtained in SiGe BiCMOS and 90-nm RF CMOS technologies using inductors and transformers above 50 GHz are presented.
Citation:
S. P. Voinigescu, M. Gordon, C. Lee, T. Yao, A. Mangan, K. Yau, "System-on-Chip Design beyond 50 GHz, invited," iwsoc, pp.10-13, Fifth International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications (IWSOC'05), 2005