A 142GHz fully integrated wireless chip to chip communication system for high data rate operation

S. Foulon (1) , S. Pruvost (1) , D. Pache (1) , Christophe Loyez (2) , N. Rolland (2)

1 ST-CROLLES - STMicroelectronics [Crolles]
2 IEMN - Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520

A 142GHz fully-integrated wireless chip-to-chip solution is demonstrated for short range and low power communication. Implemented in 0.13μm SiGe:C BiCMOS technology, the Tx and Rx silicon area including dipole antennas is 0.31mm². The OOK transceiver achieves a data rate of 14Gbps for a communication distance of 0.6mm with an energy efficiency of 5.7pJ/bit.

S. Foulon, S. Pruvost, D. Pache, Christophe Loyez, N. Rolland. A 142GHz fully integrated wireless chip to chip communication system for high data rate operation. 39th European Solid-State Circuits Conference, ESSCIRC 2013, 2013, Bucharest, Romania. session A4L-C, paper 1254, 77-80, ⟨10.1109/ESSCIRC.2013.6649076⟩. ⟨hal-00927405⟩