ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates low-power techniques in a high-performance mm-wave subsampling frequency synthesizer. It discusses the architecture of 60 GHz synthesizer. Wireless communication has changed the way people lived and turned a mobile device into necessary equipment in our daily lives. Due to a continuous increase of demands for higher data rate, it challenges the design of low-cost complementary metal oxide semiconductor process that would satisfy stringent requirements in a small, low-cost prototype with low power consumption. This has prompted research into new radio frequency integrated circuits system architectures and design approaches. Increasing demand for unlimitedly higher data rate in portable devices has driven the research community to seek for new wireless spectrums for a support of larger capacity. Due to a congestion of frequency below 3 GHz, utilization of higher frequency will enable higher data rates by larger bandwidth. Ultra-wide band allows the transmission of information over a wide bandwidth that is larger than 500 MHz.
