Abstract
A direct conversion receiver for 60GHz applications is fabricated in 65nm CMOS. It consists of three low-noise amplifier gain stages, an RF mixer, a lowpass filter and a three-stage programmable gain amplifier. An overall minimum noise figure (NF) of 4.2dB and maximum gain of 66dB is achieved by the receiver occupying a core area of 0.26mm 2 while drawing 36mA of current from a 1V supply. © 2011 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.