Hossein Shirinabadi

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2020-155

August 13, 2020

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2020/EECS-2020-155.pdf

There has been an uptick in interest for increasing data rate of wireless communication systems over the past decade. This is mainly driven by increasing mobile data traffic and emergence of new industrial and entertainment applications. Higher frequency operation to get more bandwidth and Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) architecture to stream multiple beams to different users simultaneously have been the dominant ways to increase channel capacity. A project supported by the ComSenTer focuses on design of a large array MU-MIMO transceiver at 140GHz (D-band). Power amplifier is the most important part of the transmitter and the first half of report presents the design of a compact efficient D-band power amplifier in 28nm CMOS. The design utilizes layout optimization of active and passive devices to realize a high-gain, efficient and compact power amplifier. Packaging and integration of chip with the rest of system is of high importance in extremely high frequencies (D-band) and therefore, the second half will discuss the design of a patch antenna for a new interconnect called mm-wave contactless interconnect.

Advisors: Ali Niknejad

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Shirinabadi:EECS-2020-155,
    Author= {Shirinabadi, Hossein},
    Title= {Efficient D-Band Power Amplifier Design for Massive MIMO Systems},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2020},
    Month= {Aug},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2020/EECS-2020-155.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2020-155},
    Abstract= {There has been an uptick in interest for increasing data rate of wireless communication systems over the past decade. This is mainly driven by increasing mobile data traffic and emergence of new industrial and entertainment applications. Higher frequency operation to get more bandwidth and Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) architecture to stream multiple beams to different users simultaneously have been the dominant ways to increase channel capacity. A project supported by the ComSenTer focuses on design of a large array MU-MIMO transceiver at 140GHz (D-band). Power amplifier is the most important part of the transmitter and the first half of report presents the design of a compact efficient D-band power amplifier in 28nm CMOS. The design utilizes layout optimization of active and passive devices to realize a high-gain, efficient and compact power amplifier. Packaging and integration of chip with the rest of system is of high importance in extremely high frequencies (D-band) and therefore, the second half will discuss the design of a patch antenna for a new interconnect called mm-wave contactless interconnect.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Thesis
%A Shirinabadi, Hossein 
%T Efficient D-Band Power Amplifier Design for Massive MIMO Systems
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2020
%8 August 13
%@ UCB/EECS-2020-155
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2020/EECS-2020-155.html
%F Shirinabadi:EECS-2020-155