A low-power 60-GHz CMOS transceiver for WiGig applications

A direct-conversion transceiver including base-band amplifiers and filters employs a 60-GHz quadrature VCO and a feedforward divider with no buffers to achieve a low power consumption. Designed in 40-nm LP CMOS, the radio presents a noise figure of 4.8 to 8.2 dB in the receive mode and an output power of +10 dBm in the transmit mode while drawing 56 mW and 124 mW, respectively.