Research Projects - Communications

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has selected four hubs across Germany to conduct research on the upcoming mobile communications generation 6G. The "6G Research and Innovation Cluster" (6G-RIC) pursues the goal of developing mobile radio systems with open interfaces across all technological boundaries. The frequency range for 5G is between 3 GHz to 30 GHz but 6G will boldly take us to the Terahertz level, resulting in larger bandwidth and thus higher transmission rates, opening up new applications.

Being among one of the 50 Partner institutes, Institute for CMOS design will research in the Clock Generation and Distribution for the D-band transceiver architecture in both CMOS and Bi-CMOS technologies for the 6G hub.

Under the project we will design the wideband and low phase noise LO circuitry at 140 GHz of frequency and 35 GHz PLL for the data converter clock distribution. If you are interested in the mm-wave/rf circuit design then you are welcome to contact Meghana Kadam.

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Broadband signals play a fundamental role in information technology for the transmission of data. In the future, ever larger data volumes can be expected, which will further increase the requirements for maximum transmission rates of optical systems.

At present, DACs represent a significant system limitation in the transmission of optical data. The HIGHDAC project pursues the approach of using orthogonal sampling to upmix several DAC output signals to a signal with a bandwidth of 135 GHz, with 270 G/s signals. With HIGHDAC, a significantly higher data rate in optical transmission is to be realized through a broadband DAC output signal. This can significantly advance the current “state of the art” in optical communications technology.