WO2013043957A3 - Method and apparatus of minimizing extrinsic parasitic resistance in 60ghz power amplifier circuits - Google Patents

Method and apparatus of minimizing extrinsic parasitic resistance in 60ghz power amplifier circuits Download PDF

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WO2013043957A3
WO2013043957A3 PCT/US2012/056466 US2012056466W WO2013043957A3 WO 2013043957 A3 WO2013043957 A3 WO 2013043957A3 US 2012056466 W US2012056466 W US 2012056466W WO 2013043957 A3 WO2013043957 A3 WO 2013043957A3
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60ghz
power amplifier
amplifier circuits
parasitic resistance
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Zaw Soe
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Tensorcom, Inc.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/45—Differential amplifiers
    • H03F3/45071—Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only
    • H03F3/45076—Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only characterised by the way of implementation of the active amplifying circuit in the differential amplifier
    • H03F3/45179—Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only characterised by the way of implementation of the active amplifying circuit in the differential amplifier using MOSFET transistors as the active amplifying circuit
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/45—Differential amplifiers
    • H03F3/45071—Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only
    • H03F3/45076—Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only characterised by the way of implementation of the active amplifying circuit in the differential amplifier
    • H03F3/45475—Differential amplifiers with semiconductor devices only characterised by the way of implementation of the active amplifying circuit in the differential amplifier using IC blocks as the active amplifying circuit
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/50—Amplifiers in which input is applied to, or output is derived from, an impedance common to input and output circuits of the amplifying element, e.g. cathode follower
    • H03F3/505—Amplifiers in which input is applied to, or output is derived from, an impedance common to input and output circuits of the amplifying element, e.g. cathode follower with field-effect devices
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03H—IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS
    • H03H11/00—Networks using active elements
    • H03H11/02—Multiple-port networks
    • H03H11/04—Frequency selective two-port networks
    • H03H11/12—Frequency selective two-port networks using amplifiers with feedback
    • H03H11/126—Frequency selective two-port networks using amplifiers with feedback using a single operational amplifier
    • H03H11/1286—Sallen-Key biquad
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F2203/00—Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements covered by H03F3/00
    • H03F2203/45—Indexing scheme relating to differential amplifiers
    • H03F2203/45138—Two or more differential amplifiers in IC-block form are combined, e.g. measuring amplifiers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F2203/00—Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements covered by H03F3/00
    • H03F2203/45—Indexing scheme relating to differential amplifiers
    • H03F2203/45394—Indexing scheme relating to differential amplifiers the AAC of the dif amp comprising FETs whose sources are not coupled, i.e. the AAC being a pseudo-differential amplifier
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03H—IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS
    • H03H11/00—Networks using active elements
    • H03H11/02—Multiple-port networks
    • H03H11/04—Frequency selective two-port networks
    • H03H11/12—Frequency selective two-port networks using amplifiers with feedback
    • H03H11/1213—Frequency selective two-port networks using amplifiers with feedback using transistor amplifiers

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  • Power Engineering (AREA)
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  • Stabilization Of Oscillater, Synchronisation, Frequency Synthesizers (AREA)
  • Synchronisation In Digital Transmission Systems (AREA)
  • Networks Using Active Elements (AREA)
  • Microwave Amplifiers (AREA)

Abstract

Very high frequency circuits suffer from parasitic resistances. At 60 GHz, conventional layout techniques can introduce loss into the circuit at critical locations. One critical interconnect between the output of a pre-driver and the gate of the final output stage causes 1 or 2 dB of loss due to the layout. By minimizing the number of via contacts, this conventional loss can be recovered using this new layout technique. In addition, a tap point of a via stack is used to modify the resonant characteristics of the interconnect. Finally, cross coupled devices in a resonant circuit are used to reduce the common mode noise at the expense of the common mode gain.
PCT/US2012/056466 2011-09-23 2012-09-21 Method and apparatus of minimizing extrinsic parasitic resistance in 60ghz power amplifier circuits WO2013043957A2 (en)

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US13/243,880 US8487695B2 (en) 2011-09-23 2011-09-23 Differential source follower having 6dB gain with applications to WiGig baseband filters
US13/243,880 2011-09-23
US13/243,908 US8680899B2 (en) 2011-09-23 2011-09-23 High performance divider using feed forward, clock amplification and series peaking inductors
US13/243,986 2011-09-23
US13/243,986 US8406710B1 (en) 2011-09-23 2011-09-23 Method and apparatus of minimizing extrinsic parasitic resistance in 60 GHz power amplifier circuits
US13/243,908 2011-09-23

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