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A 1µs Settling Time Fully Digital AGC System with a 1GHz-Bandwidth Variable Gain Amplifier for WiGig/IEEE802.11ad Multi-Gigabit Wireless Transceivers
Ryo KITAMURA Koichiro TANAKA Tadashi MORITA Takayuki TSUKIZAWA Koji TAKINAMI Noriaki SAITO
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics
Vol.E96-C
No.10
pp.1301-1310 Publication Date: 2013/10/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E96.C.1301 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Emerging Technologies and Applications for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Systems) Category: Keyword: variable gain amplifier (VGA), automatic gain control (AGC), digitally-controlled, wide-bandwidth, wide gain range, CMOS, 60GHz,
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Summary:
This paper presents an automatic gain control (AGC) system suitable for 60GHz direct conversion receivers. By using a two step gain control algorithm with high-pass filter cutoff frequency switching, the proposed AGC system realizes fast settling time and wide dynamic range simultaneously. The paper also discusses wide-bandwidth variable gain amplifier (VGA) design. By introducing digitally-controlled resistors and gain flattening capacitors, the proposed VGA realizes wide gain range while compensating gain variations due to parasitic capacitance of MOS switches. The AGC system is implemented in a transceiver chipset where RFIC and BBIC are fabricated in 90nm CMOS and 40nm CMOS respectively. The measurement shows excellent dynamic range of 47dB with +/-1dB gain accuracy within 1µs settling time, which satisfies the stringent requirements of the IEEE802.11ad standard.
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