Shing-Tak Yan, Lu Ye, Hongbing Wu, R. Kulkarni, Edward Myers, H. Shih, Shadi Saberi, Darshan Kadia, Dizle Ozis, Lei Zhou, Eric Middleton, Joo Leong Tham
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Abstract
This paper describes the first dual-band MIMO 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN RF transceiver capable of simultaneous dual-band operation. The measured receiver sensitivity of 2 GHz at 54 Mbps is -78.3 dBm and of 5 GHz for VHT80 is -66 dBm. The 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO 20 MHz MCS0 2 GHz and 5 GHz receiver sensitivity levels are -96 dBm and -95.5 dBm respectively. Integrated power amplifiers with Psat of +29 dBm enable the 2 GHz transmitters to achieve TX output power of +23.5 dBm at 54 Mbps 64-QAM. The 5 GHz transmitters achieve +17 dBm output for VHT80 256-QAM. This WLAN-BT connectivity SoC is implemented in 40 nm CMOS technology.