Broadband Silicon Controlled Channel for Wireless Network-on-Chip at 60 GHz
Résumé
This paper, which concerns the wireless network concept, presents the characterization and
demonstration of silicon propagation channel control performed at around 60 GHz. The aim is to optimize
the propagation channel in order to transmit signal in a large frequency band, this for broadcast internal
Networks-on-Chip communication application. First, slot antennas in the frequency band [30–67 GHz]
directly integrated on high resistivity silicon (HR-Si) surrounded by low-resistivity silicon (LR-Si) were
designed and measured. The transmission and matching parameters are presented for inter-element spacings
of 6 mm and 14 mm and demonstrate the interest of controlling the propagation channel by using absorbent
boundaries from a controllable bias voltage. The results are also compared with the existing literature and
show large 3 dB bandwidths. The S-parameters of the measured slot antennas are then integrated and
simulated in the time domain using on-off keying (OOK) modulation, making it possible to evaluate the
maximum throughput and bit-energy efficiency.