A Power-Efficient CMOS Multi-Band Phased-Array Receiver Covering 24–71-GHz Utilizing Harmonic-Selection Technique With 36-dB Inter-Band Blocker Tolerance for 5G NR

Abstract

This article introduces a power-efficient 24.25– 71-GHz multi-band phased-array receiver supporting all allocated fifth-generation mobile network new radio (5G NR) frequency range 2 (FR2) bands at 24/28/39/47 GHz and the potential 5G NR-U bands in unlicensed 57–71 GHz. A novel harmonic-selection technique is introduced to extend the operating bandwidth with low power consumption. By switching between the fundamental-selected mode, the second-harmonic-selected mode, and the third-harmonic-selected mode, only signals in the desired bands can be preserved, while the unselected mixing components are rejected. A dual-mode multi-band low-noise amplifier (LNA) based on a configurable transformer is adopted to realize broadband operation with minimized power consumption and noise figure (NF). The Hartley architecture is employed to further improve the image rejection performance. A hybrid-type polyphase filter (PPF) with a detector-based high-precision calibration block is utilized in this work to realize the Hartley operation with reduced insertion loss (IL). The proposed phased-array receiver is fabricated in a standard 65-nm bulk CMOS process. With the concerted efforts of all components, the proposed multi-band receiver can support 5G standard-compliant OFDMA-mode modulated signals up to 256QAM with a 400-MHz channel bandwidth from 24 to 71 GHz. Better than 36-dB inter-band blocker rejections can be maintained by this work. With existing of 0-dBc inter-band blockers at worst case frequencies, this receiver shows EVMs of −33.3, −30.9, −31.6, and −28.5 dB at 28, 39, 47.2, and 60.1 GHz, respectively. The power consumptions for a single receiver channel are 36, 32, 51, and 71 mW at 28, 39, 47.2, and 60.1 GHz, respectively.