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A 138 Gb/s D-Band 2-D Scalable Transceiver Array With On-Chip Antennas Achieving Sub-1-pJ/b Efficiency in 28-nm Bulk CMOS

A 138 Gb/s D-Band 2-D Scalable Transceiver Array With On-Chip Antennas Achieving Sub-1-pJ/b Efficiency in 28-nm Bulk CMOS 150 150

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This article presents a D-band 2-D scalable phased array that integrates a $2{\,}\times{\,} 2$ transceiving (TRX) radio frequency (RF) beamformer with on-chip antennas (OCAs) and a $\times 16$ local-oscillator (LO) multiplication chain. The 2-D array scalability is demonstrated by tiling $2{\,}\times{\,} 2$ chips into an array using a low-cost package to build a 16…

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A Bio-Impedance Readout IC With Phase-Locked Sampling for Real-Time Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy

A Bio-Impedance Readout IC With Phase-Locked Sampling for Real-Time Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy 150 150

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This article presents an electrical bio-impedance (bioZ) spectroscopy integrated circuit (IC) that achieves both high-throughput and high-accuracy. The proposed phase-locked sampling (PLS) scheme, which employs a sampling phase-locked loop (SPLL) and a reference resistor ( $R_{\textit {REF}}$ ), enables fast and precise impedance demodulation. By extracting the impedance components through sampling …

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A W-Band Active Bidirectional Phase Shifter With 2° RMS Phase Error Over 26.4% FBW Using Back-Gate Biasing in 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS

A W-Band Active Bidirectional Phase Shifter With 2° RMS Phase Error Over 26.4% FBW Using Back-Gate Biasing in 28-nm FD-SOI CMOS 150 150

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This article presents a W-band active bidirectional vector-sum phase shifter (Bi-VSPS) using a bidirectional phase-inverting variable-gain amplifier (Bi-PIVGA) with back-gate biasing in 28-nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) CMOS. The Bi-PIVGA employs a neutralization technique that cancels the gate-to-drain capacitances of both active and inactive transistors in each signal direction. By …

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An Incremental Noise-Shaping Pipeline ADC With Single-Amplification-Based kT/C Noise Cancellation Technique

An Incremental Noise-Shaping Pipeline ADC With Single-Amplification-Based kT/C Noise Cancellation Technique 150 150

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This article presents an incremental noise-shaping (NS) pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC) featuring a single-amplification-based kT/C noise cancellation technique. By pre-amplifying the frontend sampling kT/C noise onto the capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) of the backend NS successive approximation register (SAR) quantizer, the proposed architecture eliminates the repeated amplifications typically …

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A 6.3–18.4 GHz I/Q Receiver With RF and LO Path Reconfigurability for 6G FR3 Applications in 22-nm FD-SOI

A 6.3–18.4 GHz I/Q Receiver With RF and LO Path Reconfigurability for 6G FR3 Applications in 22-nm FD-SOI 150 150

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This article presents a 6.3–18.4GHz in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) direct down-conversion receiver featuring reconfigurability in both the radio frequency (RF) and local oscillator (LO) paths. The receiver comprises a multi-band reconfigurable RF front-end, double-balanced passive I/Q mixers, an I/Q LO generation network with a tunable I/Q …

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A Ka-Band Time-Modulated Phase-Invariant Variable-Gain Amplifier With 30-dB Gain Tuning Based on Duty-Cycle Control

A Ka-Band Time-Modulated Phase-Invariant Variable-Gain Amplifier With 30-dB Gain Tuning Based on Duty-Cycle Control 150 150

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This article presents a time-modulated variable-gain amplifier (VGA) employing a clock-sampling topology governed by a duty-cycle control (DCC) loop. By modulating the effective operation time of the amplifier rather than altering its RF bias conditions, for precise tuning of the clock duty cycle, enabling phase consistency at millimeter-wave frequencies. The …

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A 6.9-ppm/°C, 0.66-mV/V Line Regulation, 50-mA Multi-Loop Low-Dropout Regulator With Integrated Single-BJT Voltage and Current References

A 6.9-ppm/°C, 0.66-mV/V Line Regulation, 50-mA Multi-Loop Low-Dropout Regulator With Integrated Single-BJT Voltage and Current References 150 150

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This article presents a fully integrated output-capacitor-less (OCL) multi-feedback-loop low-dropout regulator (LDO) with an in-built single bipolar junction transistor (BJT)-based voltage and current reference (VCR) for energy-harvesting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The proposed architecture comprises four loops, which significantly enhance the DC regulation and transient performance of the …

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A 15-MHz, 2.7-mm2 Notch-Free Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With Feedforward Ripple Cancellation and ±0.8% Local Gain Non-Uniformity

A 15-MHz, 2.7-mm2 Notch-Free Hybrid Magnetic Current Sensor With Feedforward Ripple Cancellation and ±0.8% Local Gain Non-Uniformity 150 150

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This article proposes a hybrid magnetic current sensor achieving a 15-MHz bandwidth within a compact 2.7-mm2 area. To mitigate the pole–zero mismatch inherent in the two-stage integrator topology, a dual-output Gm-C integrator with subtractor-based compensation is proposed, achieving a ±0.8% local gain non-uniformity. A wideband feedforward ripple suppression scheme cancels …

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A 77-dB DR Two-Stage SAR ADC for Low-Gain Analog Front-Ends Using Asynchronous Pipelining and RC Snubber Reference Stabilization

A 77-dB DR Two-Stage SAR ADC for Low-Gain Analog Front-Ends Using Asynchronous Pipelining and RC Snubber Reference Stabilization 150 150

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The analog front-end (AFE) often bottlenecks the power of modern receiver chains, burdened by the large-signal linearity required before the ADC. This work introduces a 77-dB DR, 200-MS/s two-stage SAR ADC that can alleviate much of this burden by offering a significantly lower input-referred noise (IRN) to enable low-gain …

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