The HMC6300 is a complete millimeterwave transmitter integrated circuit in a 6 mm × 4 mm RoHS compliant wafer level ball grid array (WLBGA) that operates from 57 GHz to 64 GHz with up to 1.8 GHz modulation bandwidth.

An integrated synthesizer provides tuning in 250 MHz, 500 MHz, or 540 MHz steps with excellent phase noise to support up to 64 QAM modulation. Optionally, an external LO can be injected allowing for user selectable LO characteristics or phase coherent transmit and receive operation, as well as modulation up to 256 QAM. Support for a wide variety of modulation formats is provided through a universal analog baseband I/Q interface. The transmitter chip optionally supports dedicated frequency-shift keying (FSK), minimum shift keying (MSK), and on-off keying (OOK) modulation formats for lower cost and lower power serial data links without the need for high speed data converters.

A differential output provides up to 15 dBm linear output power into a 100 Ω load. Single-ended operation is also supported up to 12 dBm. Together with the HMC6301, a complete 60 GHz transceiver chipset is provided for multiple Gbps operation in the unlicensed 60 GHz ISM band.

Applications

• Small cell backhaul
• 60 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band data transfer
• Multiple Gbps data communication
• WiGig/802.11ad radio
• High definition video transmission
• Radar/high resolution imaging