The aim of the OGRE group is to design a fully-integrated low-power multiple  antenna wireless LAN radio front-end at 60 GHz using conventional silicon technology.

mm-Wave Devices are “exotic” and therefore   expensive ......... How far can we push CMOS and Bipolar?

This will enable low-cost, low-power, mobile, agile mm-wave communications.

A broadband wireless system capable of providing 10x capacity and operating at 10x the carrier frequency of current wireless radios will require a fundamental shift in the design of CMOS circuits and new approaches to system design.  To address these challenges, our research is focused on several key areas:

We are investigating system algorithms and architectures that are both amenable to the limited capabilities of conventional silicon technologies and capable of overcoming the challenges of the 60 GHz channel.  The low required spectral-efficiency required for 60GHz operation allows for investigation into alternative system architectures that are better suited to conventional silicon implementations. Also, the significant processing capabilities of digital CMOS architectures allow extensive estimation of and compensation for the inherent impairments of silicon technologies in the 60GHz band.