Design and modeling of monolithic integrated millimeterwave chip-package antennas and wireless communication links

Abstract

The design of a silicon monolithic integrated antenna for millimeterwave sensing and on-chip communication applications is presented. To enable an efficient co-design with monolithic integrated mixed-signal circuits on the system-on-chip level, a compact lumped element circuit model for an on-chip communication link is extracted from measurement data of the on-chip communication link. The circuit model is of generalized Foster type and accounts also for the losses. Design, measurement and modeling results are presented.