An advanced single-chip Ka-band transceiver

This paper describes the development of an advanced single-chip Ka-band transceiver for military applications. The in-fixture measured performance of the transceiver chip is presented. The transceiver chip monolithically integrates seven separate chips and one filter onto a single chip. In-fixture, the monolithic transceiver chip has demonstrated measured receiver noise figure of less than 6.5 dB across the RF band from 38.0-38.5 GHz at an IF of 2.45 GHz under -10 dBm LO drive. The transmitter output power was measured to be greater than 17.5 dBm across the 38.0-38.5 GHz band.