Wireless communication

A 142–164-GHz Phased-Array AiP Module With High-Power-Density and High-Efficiency Transceiver in 65-nm CMOS for 6G UE

A 142–164-GHz Phased-Array AiP Module With High-Power-Density and High-Efficiency Transceiver in 65-nm CMOS for 6G UE 150 150

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This work presents a D-band high-power-density four-element phased-array transceiver for 6G user equipment (UE). Conventional designs require large multi-stage LO generation circuits for D-band up/down conversion, making it difficult to achieve compact size and low-power consumption. To address this, we propose an integrated LO chain using an injection-locked tripling …

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A Fully-Integrated Wireless Ingestible CMOS Drug-Delivery Chip With Electrochemical Energy Harvesting and pH-Adaptive MPPT for Personalized Therapeutics

A Fully-Integrated Wireless Ingestible CMOS Drug-Delivery Chip With Electrochemical Energy Harvesting and pH-Adaptive MPPT for Personalized Therapeutics 150 150

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The rapid growth of personalized medicine has driven increased demand for battery-free, energy-efficient ingestible electronics for on-demand gastrointestinal (GI) drug delivery. This article presents the first fully-integrated, battery-free ingestible CMOS platform that harvests energy from a galvanic cell (GC) through a reconfigurable switched-capacitor converter, with pH-adaptive maximum power point tracking (…

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An 11.95-ENOB 560-MS/s Amplifier-Switching Subranging Analog-to-Digital Converter With Multi-Threshold Comparators

An 11.95-ENOB 560-MS/s Amplifier-Switching Subranging Analog-to-Digital Converter With Multi-Threshold Comparators 150 150

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This article proposes a 14-bit, 560-MS/s subranging analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that employs an amplifier-switching architecture with multi-threshold comparators. The proposed amplifier-switching architecture reuses a flash quantizer multiple times during subranging conversion by amplifying the residue voltage with an appropriate gain at each quantization step. This approach reduces the required …

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220 GHz, 8.5-dBm Saturated Output Power Wideband Power Amplifier in SiGe BiCMOS

220 GHz, 8.5-dBm Saturated Output Power Wideband Power Amplifier in SiGe BiCMOS 150 150

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This letter presents a broadband $G$ -band power amplifier (PA) designed in a 130-nm silicon-germanium (SiGe) bipolar complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. Unlike dual-band matching and staggered tuning techniques to obtain large operation bandwidth (BW), we propose a common broadband amplification stage in this work for its flexibility. In each stage, inductive …

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A Dual-Input Bidirectional Three-Level Battery Charger Using Coarse-Fine V CF Balancing and Frequency Foldback Control for Foldable Mobile Applications

A Dual-Input Bidirectional Three-Level Battery Charger Using Coarse-Fine V CF Balancing and Frequency Foldback Control for Foldable Mobile Applications 150 150

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Foldable mobile applications recently have been leading the battery charger to have a slim height with a small form-factor and high efficiency at higher input voltages to increase the power density. Another trend for mobile applications is the power sharing, which enables to supply two mobile devices simultaneously. To meet …

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A Battery-Free BLE Backscatter Communication Chip for Wearable Systems

A Battery-Free BLE Backscatter Communication Chip for Wearable Systems 150 150

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This letter presents a backscatter chip that features bidirectional communication with commodity bluetooth low-energy (BLE) transceivers. For uplink, the chip reflects a reverse-whitened BLE tone into single-sideband (SSB) GFSK-modulated BLE packets via a proposed replica VCO-based GFSK modulator and an inductor-free SSB reflector. For downlink, the BLE packets are frequency …

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A 160-Gb/s D-Band Bi-Directional CMOS Mixer Covering 112–170 GHz for 6G Transceivers

A 160-Gb/s D-Band Bi-Directional CMOS Mixer Covering 112–170 GHz for 6G Transceivers 150 150

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This work presents a D-band bi-directional CMOS double-balanced mixer (DBM) supporting data rates over 160 Gb/s with a 58-GHz RF bandwidth (112–170 GHz). The mixer employs four identical NMOS passive switches ( $12~\mu $ m/60 nm) in a DBM topology, providing the isolation between RF, LO, and IF ports. Both IF and RF …

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