WO2004082064A1 - インピーダンス整合回路とそれを用いた半導体素子及び無線通信装置 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an impedance matching circuit capable of outputting an input signal with a set bandwidth, a semiconductor element and a wireless communication device using the same, and particularly to a wireless signal such as an ultrashort wave or a microwave.
- the present invention relates to an impedance matching circuit, a semiconductor element using the same, and a wireless communication device that can transmit the same. Background art
- a SAW (surface acoustic wave) filter is used in a transmission / reception circuit of mobile communication such as a mobile phone or a wireless LAN.
- the SAW filter maximizes the power of the transmitted signal by matching the input and output impedance of an amplifier such as an LNA (low noise amplifier) and PA (power amplifier) with a predetermined characteristic impedance (for example, 50 [ ⁇ ]).
- the noise of the received signal can be set to a minimum, and a predetermined bandwidth can be set.
- AS ICs application-specific integrated circuits
- RF radio frequency
- DSP digital signal processing circuit
- an impedance matching circuit 60 which is constituted by a lumped constant element in which a plurality of spiral inductors 62, 62,.
- MM IC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
- the impedance matching circuit 60 since the occupied area needs to be about 0.5 [mm 2 ]), the impedance matching circuit 60 must be configured on the AS IC as it is.
- the function of the impedance matching circuit 60 is only impedance matching (that is, it does not function as a filter), there is a disadvantage that the bandwidth cannot be set.
- the present invention provides an impedance matching circuit and an impedance matching circuit that can set a predetermined bandwidth while reducing the occupied area, thereby enabling it to be configured on a semiconductor element. It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device and a wireless communication device that have been used. Disclosure of the invention
- the present invention according to claim 1 has a distributed constant line formed on a dielectric substrate (20), and receives input signals (SI1, SI2).
- the distributed constant line includes a load (e.g.
- the reactance compensation distributed constant line compensates for the reactance of the load, and constitutes a 1/4 wavelength distributed constant line and an impedance inverting circuit according to the magnitude of the load impedance.
- the impedance-inverted distributed constant line matches the complemented ⁇ impedance of the load and outputs an input signal with a set bandwidth, so that the band can be adjusted.
- the impedance matching circuit according to the present invention includes only the reactance compensation distributed constant line, the 1/4 wavelength distributed constant line, and the impedance inverting circuit, the occupied area can be reduced.
- the present invention according to claim 2 includes the reactance compensation distributed constant line (31, 41), the 1/4 wavelength distributed constant line (32, 42), and
- the impedance-inverted distributed constant lines (33, 43) are respectively a ground conductor (22) formed on one surface (2 OF) of the dielectric substrate (20) and one of the dielectric substrates (20).
- a predetermined interval for example, G
- the reactance compensation distributed constant line, the ⁇ wavelength distributed constant line, and the impedance inversion distributed constant line each include a ground formed on one surface of the dielectric substrate. It is composed of a conductor and a signal line formed on one surface of the dielectric substrate and interposed at a predetermined interval between the conductor and the ground conductor, that is, a coplanar line.
- the signal line and the ground conductor are formed on the front and back of the dielectric substrate respectively, it is necessary to change the thickness of the dielectric substrate according to the characteristic impedance.
- the characteristic impedance of the four-wavelength distribution constant line can be easily changed according to the bandwidth, and the manufacturing cost of the impedance matching circuit can be reduced.
- the present invention according to claim 3 provides a signal line (2 1) of the reactance fine distributed parameter line (3 1, 41). ) And the signal line (2 1) of the 1/4 wavelength distribution constant line (32, 42), at least the signal line (2 1) of the 1 Z4 wavelength distribution constant line (32, 42). Is meandering
- the impedance matching circuit according to claim 2 (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d).
- the signal line of the reactance compensation distributed constant line and the signal line of the quarter wavelength distributed constant line at least the signal line of the quarter wavelength distributed constant line is meandering. Therefore, even if the impedance matching circuit is configured with a coplanar line, in which a signal line and a ground conductor are formed on one surface of the dielectric substrate, the area occupied by the ground conductor adjacent to the signal line is small. The impedance matching circuit can be further reduced in size.
- the present invention according to claim 4 is to provide a ground layer that is electrically connected to the ground conductor (22) on the other surface (20B) of the dielectric substrate (20).
- the other surface of the dielectric substrate since the other surface of the dielectric substrate has the ground layer that is electrically connected to the ground conductor, loss of an input signal can be reduced. The efficiency of dance matching can be improved.
- the present invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the dielectric substrate (20) comprises a plurality of stacked dielectric layers (20a, 20b, 20c, 20 d), and among the plurality of dielectric layers (20a, 20b, 20c, 20d), at least two of the dielectric layers (eg, 20d, 20e) are ground conductors.
- the signal lines (2 1) are provided with interlayer conduction means (5 1, 52) for conducting between the layers (2 1D, 21 E) and between the ground conductor layers (22 D, 22 E).
- the present invention according to claim 6 is characterized in that the dielectric substrate (20) includes a plurality of stacked dielectric layers (20a, 20b, 20c, 2 0 d And at least two of the plurality of dielectric layers (20a, 20b, 20c, 20d) are ground conductor layers. (22D, 22E) and a signal layer (21D, 21E) interposed at predetermined intervals between the ground conductor layer (22D, 22E), and the signal layer (21D, 21E) and the ground conductor layer (22D, 22E) are connected to each other, and an interlayer conductive line (51, 52) is provided.
- the signal line (21) The signal layer (21D, 2IE) conducted by the interlayer conductive line (51), and the ground conductor (22) is connected to the ground conductor layer (52) conducted by the interlayer conductive line (52). 22D, 22E) in the impedance matching circuit (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) according to claim 2.
- the signal line is a plurality of signal layers which are conducted by the interlayer conduction means or the interlayer conduction line
- the ground conductor is conducted by the interlayer conduction means or the interlayer conduction line. Therefore, even when the dielectric substrate is composed of a plurality of stacked dielectric layers, the signal layer and the ground conductor layer of each dielectric layer are superimposed on the dielectric substrate.
- the thickness can be increased, and the loss of the input signal can be reduced. For example, even if the thickness of the signal layer and the ground conductor layer is limited due to the design rule of the semiconductor manufacturing process, the thickness can be increased without any problem and the signal loss can be reduced. .
- the distributed constant line is connected to the impedance inversion distributed constant line (33, 43), and the 1 Z4 wavelength ( ⁇ / 4) with at least one resonant circuit (91 a, 91 b, ⁇ ' ⁇ , 91 n-l, or 93 a, 93 b, ⁇ , 93 n-1) And an impedance inverting circuit (92 a, 92 b,..., 92 ⁇ , or 95) corresponding to the K and Y inverters adjacent to each other via the resonance circuit. a, 95 b,... ⁇ 95 ⁇ ), and further comprising a narrow band-pass distributed constant line (90 a, 90 b).
- the impedance matching circuit since the impedance matching circuit includes the narrow-band pass distribution constant line, it can function as a bandpass filter having high power characteristics. This allows high frequencies, even in narrow bandwidths Selectivity can be realized.
- the line length of the resonance circuit formed by the narrow band pass distributed constant line is 1/4 wavelength, and the line length becomes half as compared with the half wavelength. It is possible to prevent an increase in the size of the impedance matching circuit.
- the present invention according to claim 8 is a semiconductor device comprising the impedance matching circuit (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) according to claim 1. 2)
- the semiconductor element includes the miniaturized impedance matching circuit, so that the impedance matching circuit can be formed on the semiconductor element without occupying a large area. Can be.
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- the present invention according to claim 9 includes the semiconductor element (2) according to claim 8 and an antenna (3) connected to the semiconductor element (2).
- the wireless communication device (1) provided.
- the wireless communication device since the wireless communication device includes the semiconductor element having the miniaturized impedance matching circuit, components necessary for configuring the wireless communication device are previously determined. Since the wireless communication device can be formed on a semiconductor element, the size of the wireless communication device can be reduced, and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a wireless communication device to which the present invention is applied.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view (partly in section) showing an example of a structure of a coplanar line constituting an impedance matching circuit. The figure shows the transmission line around the impedance matching circuit connected to the input terminal of the loudspeaker.
- A is a top view of the transmission line (partially omitted).
- B is the transmission line.
- (C) is an equivalent circuit using K-impeller.
- Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a filter composed of K-imper. Circuit diagram of the filter, (b) is the voltage amplitude of the signal transmitted through the filter, (C) is the equivalent circuit of the filter, and Fig.
- FIG. 5 is the characteristic of the impedance matching circuit connected to the input terminal of the open-ended noise amplifier.
- A is a circuit diagram of an impedance matching circuit
- (b) is a voltage amplitude of a signal transmitted through the impedance matching circuit
- (c) is an equivalent circuit of the impedance matching circuit
- Fig. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the transmission line around the impedance matching circuit connected to the output terminal of the oral noise amplifier.
- (A) is the transmission line (partially omitted).
- Top view (b) is the transmission line equivalent.
- Circuit (c) is an equivalent circuit using J-impeller, Fig.
- FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the filter composed of J-impeller, (a) is the circuit diagram of the filter, (b) is the filter Voltage amplitude of signal to be transmitted, (c) Fig. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the characteristic impedance and line length of the impedance matching circuit connected to the output terminal of the noise amplifier, (a) is a circuit diagram of the impedance matching circuit, and (b) is the impedance diagram. The voltage amplitude of the signal transmitted through the matching circuit, (c) is the equivalent circuit of the impedance matching circuit, and Fig. 9 is the top view (partially omitted) of the transmission line of the impedance matching circuit when the width of the transmission line is reduced. Fig.
- FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of an impedance matching circuit shown as an equivalent circuit using a K impeller.
- A is a transmission line formed in a meander shape
- (b) is a transmission line.
- C when the width of the ground conductor is reduced, (d) when the adjacent ground conductor is removed, and (e) when the transmission line is within the distance of the ground conductor.
- Fig. 11 shows that the impedance (A) when the silicon substrate is formed on the back surface of the dielectric substrate, (b) when the ground layer is formed on the back surface of the dielectric substrate, and FIG. The figure is a cross-sectional view (partially omitted) of the impedance matching circuit when the thickness of the transmission line is increased.
- Fig. 13 is the impedance matching circuit when the thickness is increased by the stacked dielectric layers.
- Fig. 14 is a top view of the transmission line of the impedance matching circuit of the miniaturized impedance matching transmission line, (a) when the fourth metal layer is formed.
- (B) is a diagram showing the calculation result of the S parameter of the impedance matching circuit shown in FIG. 14 when the fourth metal layer and the fifth metal layer are connected by vias.
- Fig. 16 shows a multi-stage configuration by alternately connecting the mber and the 14-wavelength resonance circuit.
- FIG. 17 is a conventional impedance matching circuit composed of lumped element elements. It is a figure showing a dance matching circuit.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a wireless communication device 1 to which the present invention is applied.
- the wireless communication device 1 includes a semiconductor element 2 and an antenna 3 such as a whip antenna.
- the semiconductor element 2 is connected to a transmitting means (not shown) such as a keypad microphone via a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) (not shown) and a receiving means (display, speed, etc.) (Not shown) is connected.
- a transmitting means such as a keypad microphone via a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) (not shown)
- a receiving means display, speed, etc.
- wireless communication device 1 examples include mobile communication means such as a mobile phone, a PHS, and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). Also, a communication function adding unit that adds a mobile communication function to a PC (personal computer), such as a wireless LAN card or a wireless LAN port, may be used. Further, a fixed telephone may be used as long as wireless communication is possible. For example, a cordless telephone is also included in the wireless communication device 1. Further, the antenna 3 is not particularly limited to the whip antenna, and may be, for example, a plate-shaped inverted-F antenna used as a built-in antenna for reception only, or a slot antenna formed on the semiconductor element 2.
- the semiconductor element 2 has an RF (radio frequency) circuit (within a broken-line frame) 2a to which the antenna 3 is connected, an AZD conversion circuit (within a broken-line frame) 2b, and a digital signal processing circuit (within a broken-line frame) 2c. And constitutes an AS IC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit).
- RF circuit 2a, A / D conversion circuit 2b, and digital signal processing circuit 2c are composed of, for example, CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor).
- the circuit constituting the semiconductor element 2 is not limited to the circuits 2a, 2 and 2c described above, and various circuits such as DSP can be constituted.
- the present invention is not limited to the CMOS, but includes, for example, a BiCMOS, a bipolar transistor, and a GaAs FET (gallium arsenide field effect transistor) in which bipolar and CMOS are mixed. May be.
- CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
- GaAs FET gallium arsenide field effect transistor
- RF circuit 2a consists of power amplifier (PA) 5, low noise amplifier (LNA) 6, impedance matching circuit (IMC) 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, voltage controlled oscillator (not shown), etc. It has a phase-locked loop (PLL) 9, phase shifters 10a and 10b, mixers 11a, lib, 11c, 11d, and switches (SW) 12.
- PLL phase-locked loop
- the impedance matching circuits 7a, 7b, 7c, and 7d are simply referred to as the impedance matching circuit 7, unless it is particularly necessary to distinguish them.
- the AZD conversion circuit 2b is a single pass filter (LPF) 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d, a variable gain amplifier (VGA) 14a, 14b, and an AD comparator (AD C) 15a, 15b, and DA converter (DAC) 16a, 16b.
- the digital signal processing circuit 2c has a digital demodulator 17 and a digital modulator 18 and the like.
- the digital signal processing circuit 2c can freely input an input signal (input signal) SI1, which will be described later, and the RF circuit 2a can output an output signal SO1 having a carrier frequency such as an ultrashort wave or a microwave. Can be freely output.
- the digital signal processing circuit 2c is connected to the RF circuit 2a via the AZD conversion circuit 2b to form a transmission path for the input signal SI1 and the output signal SO1.
- the digital modulator 18 is connected to mixers llc and lid via DA converters 16a and 16d and open-path filters 13c and 13d. Further, the phase shift locked loop 9 is similarly connected to the mixers 11c and 11d via the phase shifter 10b. Further, the mixers 11 c and 11 d are connected to the antenna 3 via the impedance matching circuit ⁇ c, the power amplifier 5, the impedance matching circuit 7 d, and the switch 12.
- the RF circuit 2a is free to input an input signal (input signal) SI2 whose carrier frequency is a microwave or a microwave, and the digital signal processing circuit 2c is an output signal described later. SO 2 can be output freely.
- Circuit 2 & is connected to the digital signal processing circuit 2 c via the AZD conversion circuit 2 b and forms a transmission path for the input signal SI 2 and the output signal S 02 in the same manner as described above.
- the switch 12 connected to the antenna 3 is connected to the mixer 11a and lib via the impedance matching circuit 7a, the mouth noise amplifier 6, and the impedance matching circuit 7b. Have been.
- the phase shift lock loop 9 is similarly connected to mixers 11a and lib via a phase shifter 10a. Further, the mixer 11a and lib are respectively connected to the digital demodulator 1 via the single-pass filter 13a13b, the variable gain amplifiers 14a and 14b, and the AD converters 15a and 15b. Connected to 7.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view (partly in section) showing an example of the structure of a coplanar line constituting the impedance matching circuit 7.
- the impedance matching circuit 7 is formed on a dielectric substrate 20 having a predetermined thickness H and a surface (one surface of the dielectric substrate) 2 OF of the dielectric substrate 20.
- the signal line 21 and the ground conductor 22 are provided. That is, the transmission line of the impedance matching circuit 7 is configured by a coplanar line (CPW: Coplanar Wavegiuid).
- CPW Coplanar Wavegiuid
- the signal line 21 is formed with a predetermined line width W.
- grounding conductors 22, 22 are provided through slits 23, 23 having a spacing (predetermined spacing) G. Are located.
- the characteristic impedance Z of the impedance matching circuit 7 is determined by the ratio of the line width W to the distance G by configuring the dielectric substrate 20 so that its thickness H is five times or more the line width W. The thickness H can be approximately ignored, and it is assumed that the dielectric substrate 20 in the present embodiment is also configured as described above.
- FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the transmission line around the impedance matching circuit 7a connected to the input terminal of the oral noise amplifier 6, where (a) is a top view (partially omitted) of the transmission line, (b) shows the equivalent circuit of the transmission line, and (c) shows the equivalent circuit using K-Imper.
- the impedance matching circuit 7a is constituted by the coplanar line shown in FIG. Inverter transmission line (impedance inversion distributed constant line) 33
- the left side in the drawing of the K inverter Isseki transmission line 33 is a typical value as the characteristic impedance 50 [Omega] (hereinafter simply Ganmazeta 0 "called.)
- a transmission line 3 5 Connected to switch 12 (see FIG. 1).
- the right side of the impedance matching transmission line 30 in the figure is connected to the mouth-to-mouth noise amplifier 6 (see FIG. 1).
- the impedance matching transmission line 30, the K-inverting transmission line 33, and the transmission line 35 are connected to the ultrahigh frequency (300 [MHz] to 3 [ GHz]), microwaves (3 to 30 [GHz]), and millimeter waves (30 to 300 [GHz]), along with the dielectric substrate 20 shown in FIG. Function as In the present embodiment, the carrier frequency is 2.45 GHz.
- the transmission line 35 is composed of a signal line 21a having a line width W1 and ground conductors 22 and 22 via slits 23a and 23a having an interval G1.
- Characteristic impedance as described above, since depends on the ratio of the line width W and spacing G, the characteristic impedance Z 35 of the transmission line 35, the ratio of line width W 1 and the gap G 1, e.g., The line width W1 is 17.5 [ ⁇ m] and the interval G1 is 5 [m], Z. It is set so that Therefore, the line length L F i of the transmission line 35 is not particularly limited and may be set to an appropriate length.
- the impedance matching transmission line 30 has a signal line 2 lb having a line width W 2 (for example, 4.5 C ⁇ m) smaller than the line width W 1 and a gap G 2 (eg, For example, it is composed of ground conductors 22 and 22 through slits 23b and 23b of 11.5 [m]), and its characteristic impedance Z 3 Q is equal to that of the above-described transmission line 35 and transmission line 35. It is set to a different predetermined value (for example, 83.4 [ ⁇ ]) (details will be described later). Further, the line length L i of the impedance matching transmission line 30 is set to a predetermined length, unlike the above-described transmission line 35 (details will be described later).
- the K impeller transmission line 33 is connected to the ground conductor 22 via the signal line 21b having a line width W2 and the slits 23b and 23b having the interval G2. , And 22. Also, the signal line 2 lb and the ground conductor The terminals 22 and 22 are connected (short-circuited) via the buses 25 and 25, which are formed of meandering transmission lines having a line width d1.
- such a K-inverter transmission line 33 is connected to a T-shaped circuit 33a having an inductance L and both ends of the T-shaped circuit 33a. It is represented by an equivalent circuit composed of distributed constant lines 33b and 33b, with the electrical length ⁇ 2 as the line length.
- the transmission lines having a line width d1 that constitute the stubs 25 and 25 described above are set to have a predetermined line length when constituting the inductance L described above.
- the impedance matching circuit 7a is composed of a T-shaped circuit 33a having inductance L and distributed constant lines 33b, 33b connected to both sides thereof.
- the K-inverter transmission line 33 is composed of a T-shaped circuit 33a with inductance L, and distributed constant lines 33b and 33b connected to both sides thereof. Therefore, as shown in Fig. 3 (c), it functions as a K-inverse.
- the term “invar overnight” refers to a circuit element whose load or impedance appears to be inverted when the load is viewed from the input terminal via the inverter.
- a circuit element whose impedance is inverted and viewed as admittance is called K-inver
- a circuit element whose admittance is inverted and viewed as impedance is called a J-imperge.
- the K inverter is configured by, for example, a T-type circuit having an inductance L
- the J inverter is configured by, for example, a 7t-type circuit of a capacitor C described later.
- FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a filter 70 constituted by a K impeller, (a) is a circuit diagram of the filter 70, () is a voltage amplitude of a signal transmitted through the filter 70, (c) Indicates the equivalent circuit of the filter 70.
- Filter 70 is a one-stage filter composed of K imper A half-wave series resonator 7 1 whose reactance is indicated by j, an inverter 72 indicated by K i connected via a terminal P i- P, and a terminal connected via a terminal P 2 -P 2 ′. and it is constituted by a K Inba Isseki 7 3 represented by K 2. K impeller 72, Z. The load 75 shown in the figure is connected. Are connected.
- the filter 70 allows impedance matching and setting of a signal to be transmitted to a predetermined bandwidth (band adjustment).
- a known design formula is expressed by Equations 1 and 2. expressed.
- x 1 represents the slope parameter of the reactance X, and the reactance X i is expressed by Equation 3.
- ⁇ is the frequency
- Center frequency, w (bandwidth) is specific bandwidth - represents the omega have omega 2 are cut-off frequency
- gg have g 2 is Tadashi Kakuka element value (( ⁇ 2 ⁇ ) / ⁇ .).
- the normalized element value g 0 gg 2 is calculated from the reflection loss (in which the ripple is maximum) in the passband and the number of stages (of the filter).
- the K-inverters 72 and 73 invert the impedance (that is, the half-wavelength series resonator 71) to admittance (half-wavelength parallel resonator) as described above. It is equivalent to a parallel resonator (not shown). Therefore,
- the filter 70 functions as a one-stage filter composed of a half-wavelength parallel resonator. Impedance matching is enabled based on the above-described equations 1 and 2, and the bandwidth adjustment is performed by setting the fractional bandwidth w. Be free.
- Such a half-wavelength series resonator 71 is constituted by a transmission line (not shown) having a line length of a half-wavelength of a signal to be transmitted, and K impellers 72 and 73 are respectively Similar to the K-member transmission line 33 shown in FIG. 3 (b), a T-shaped circuit of inductance L and a transmission line connected to both sides thereof and having an electrical length of ⁇ / 2 (not shown) It is composed of
- the semiconductor device 2 since a plurality of circuits are configured in the AS device as described above, the semiconductor device 2 has a limited space on the semiconductor device 2. In order to construct it above, its occupied area must be further reduced. Therefore, the impedance matching circuit 7 according to the present invention, like the filter 70 described above, satisfies the formulas 1 and 2 so that the occupied area can be made smaller than the filter 70.
- track length L! i is set to a predetermined value.
- FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of an impedance matching circuit 7 a characteristic Inpi one dance Z 3 0 and the line length connected to the input end of the mouth one noise amplifier 6,
- (a) is a circuit diagram of the impedance matching circuit 7 a
- (B) shows a voltage amplitude of a signal transmitted through the impedance matching circuit 7a
- (c) shows an equivalent circuit of the impedance matching circuit 7a.
- the impedance matching circuit 7a shown in FIG. 5 (a) is composed of the impedance matching transmission line 30 and the K inverter transmission line 33 as described in FIG.
- the impedance matching transmission line 30 includes a 14 wavelength transmission line (1/4 wavelength distribution constant line) 32 having a characteristic impedance (described later) and a reactance compensation transmission line (reactance) connected to the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 32. Compensation distribution constant line) 31.
- the line length of the ⁇ wavelength transmission line 32 is / 4 of the wavelength of the signal to be transmitted, that is, 1 wavelength ⁇ / 4 (1 wavelength of the input signal).
- the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 32 is connected via the input terminal ⁇ 3 — ⁇ 3 '.
- the inverter transmission line 33 is connected to a transmission line 35.
- the reactance compensation transmission line 31 is connected to the low noise amplifier 6 (see FIG. 1) via the output terminals ⁇ 4 — ⁇ 4 ′.
- the wavelength ⁇ means a guide wavelength
- the carrier frequency is increased according to the dielectric constant of the dielectric substrate 20 shown in FIG. Therefore, the wavelength ⁇ is smaller than one wavelength of the carrier frequency of 2.45 [GHz].
- the line length of the 14-wavelength transmission line 32 is set to the length of the half-wavelength transmission line (not shown) constituting the half-wavelength series resonator 71 of the filter 70 described with reference to FIG. Set to half.
- the input impedance of the low-noise amplifier 6 is relatively large (for example, 330-j890 [ ⁇ ])
- the low-noise amplifier 6 can be treated as open, so that two K inverters are not required, and Only at the end P 3 _ ⁇ 3 ′ side, ⁇ the inverter transmission line 33 constitutes ⁇ inverter (inverter of the impedance inverting circuit) K 0 , i.
- the line of the reactance compensation transmission line 31 is used.
- the length is set to ⁇ 1 (the length for compensating the reactance of the load) so as to compensate (cancel) the susceptance of the oral noise amplifier 6.
- the input admittance Y L of the oral noise amplifier 6 is defined as shown in Expression 8.
- Gi_ represents the conductance of the oral noise amplifier 6 and the susceptance (reactance of the load) of the low-noise amplifier 6.
- ⁇ be Equation 9. Incidentally, or the resistance of the input impedance Z, or represents the reactance of the input impedance Z L.
- the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 32 can increase or decrease its line length (1Z4 wavelength ⁇ / 4) to adjust the reactance as well as the load of the inductance.
- the adjustment amount ⁇ 1 of the reactance-compensated transmission line 31 is set so as to satisfy Expression 11.
- C indicates the capacity per unit length [C / m].
- the low-noise amplifier 6 is composed of a FET (field-effect transistor). Since the capacitance between the gate and the source (not shown) is positive, x L ⁇ o, and B 0 according to Equation 10, and ⁇ 1 ⁇ 0 according to Equation 12.
- the line length of the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 32 is 1Z4 wavelength ⁇ / 4
- the line length of the reactance compensation transmission line 31 is the adjustment amount ⁇ 1, so that impedance matching is performed.
- the line length L ⁇ i of the transmission line 30 is ⁇ / 4 + ⁇ 1, as shown in FIG. 5 (a).
- the line length L i of the impedance matching transmission line 30 is determined by the line length of the quarter-wavelength transmission line 32 (14 wavelength input / 4), 3 The length obtained by subtracting the absolute value of the adjustment amount ⁇ 1 of 1. '
- the 1/4 wavelength ⁇ / 4 is about 18 [mm]
- the input impedance Z L of the low noise amplifier 6 is, for example, 330-j890 [ ⁇ ].
- the adjustment amount ⁇ 1 is 0.9 [mm]
- the line length L ⁇ t of the impedance-matched transmission line 30 is approximately 17 [mm].
- Equation 2 the design formula expressed by Equation 2 is expressed as Equation 2, Equation 5, Equation 15 and Equation 16 as the characteristic impedance (characteristic impedance corresponding to the set bandwidth) of the quarter wavelength transmission line 32. From equation 18 Further, the design formula shown in Expression 1 is expressed by Expression 19 as K invar K 0 , i formed by the K inverter transmission line 33.
- the impedance matching transmission line 30 is configured with a line width W2 and a spacing G2 (that is, the characteristic impedance is kept constant). Since the line 30 is composed of the impedance matching transmission line 31 and the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 32 as described in FIG. 5 (a), the characteristic impedance Z of the impedance matching transmission line 30 3 . (83.4 [ ⁇ ]) This is represented by the characteristic impedance Z i.
- the impedance matching circuit 7a does not require two K-invers, and the line length L t of the impedance matching transmission line 30 Can be configured as ⁇ / 4 + ⁇ 1.
- the characteristic impedance Z i of the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 32 that is, the characteristic impedance Z 3 of the impedance matching transmission line 30
- the K inverter transmission line 33 formed by the K inverter transmission line 33 of K 0,! are set so as to satisfy Equation 18 and Equation 19, so that the impedance matching circuit 7a has a small area occupied by the impedance matching circuit and the band adjustment according to the relative bandwidth w. Can be made possible.
- the impedance matching circuit 7 includes not only a relatively large impedance like the input impedance Z L of the mouth noise amplifier 6 but also an output impedance Z s (described later) of the mouth noise amplifier 6. Even if the impedance is relatively small, the bandwidth can be adjusted along with the impedance matching described above. Ability.
- FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of the transmission line around the impedance matching circuit 7b connected to the output terminal of the oral noise amplifier 6, wherein (a) is a top view of the transmission line (partially omitted), (b) () Shows an equivalent circuit of the transmission line, and (c) shows an equivalent circuit using J-Impana.
- the transmission line 45 has a signal line 21a having a line width W1 and slits 23a, 23a having an interval G1.
- the transmission line 45 is constituted by the ground conductors 22 and 22 via a, and the line length L F 2 of the transmission line 45 can be set to an appropriate length without any particular limitation.
- the impedance matching transmission line 40 is connected to the signal line 21c having a line width W3 smaller than the line width W1 and the slits 23c and 23c having an interval G3 wider than the interval G1. And ground conductors 22 and 22. Therefore, the characteristic impedance ⁇ 4 ⁇ of the impedance matching transmission line 40 is set to a predetermined value (details will be described later) different from that of the transmission line 45 described above. Further, the line length L I 2 of the impedance matching transmission line 40 is set to a predetermined length, unlike the transmission line 45 described above (details will be described later).
- such a J-impeller transmission line 43 was connected to both ends of the ⁇ -type circuit 43a of the capacitor C and the redundant circuit 43a. It is represented by an equivalent circuit composed of distributed constant lines 43b and 43b, where the electrical length ⁇ / 2 is the line length.
- the ends 26a and 26b and the gap d2 of the gap GAP are set to have a predetermined shape and a predetermined value, respectively, according to the capacity C. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6 (b), the impedance matching circuit 7b is composed of the 7t type circuit 43a of the capacitor C and the distributed constant lines 43b, 43b connected to both sides thereof.
- a distributed constant line 40 a having a line length L I 2 and a distributed constant line 45 a having a line length L F 2 connected to both sides of the distributed constant lines 43 b and 43 b. It is represented by an equivalent circuit.
- the J-inverter transmission line 43 is composed of the ⁇ -type circuit 43a of the capacitor C and the distributed constant lines 43b and 43b connected to both sides thereof. As shown in FIG. 6 (c), the J-inverter transmission line 43 functions as a J-inverter.
- FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the filter 80 composed of the J-impeller.
- A is a circuit diagram of the filter 80
- (b) is a voltage amplitude of a signal transmitted through the filter 80
- (c) ) Indicates an equivalent circuit of the filter 80.
- the conductance of the half-wave parallel resonator 81 viewed from the side of the J inverter 82 (P 5 —P 5 ′ side) is represented by G s ′ and the J impeller 8 3
- the conductance looking at the side (P 6 — ⁇ 6 'side) is G-.
- Equation 24 Represents the slope parameter of the susceptance B i, and the susceptance 3 is expressed by Equation 24.
- the impedance matching circuit 7b like the impedance matching circuit 7a described above, satisfies Equations 22 and 23, but occupies less area than the filter 80. as it is possible to, characteristics of the impedance matching transmission line path 4 0 Inpi one dance Z 4. And track length L! 2 is set to a predetermined value.
- the characteristic impedance Z 40 of the impedance matching transmission line 40 and the line length 2 will be described with reference to FIG.
- FIG. 8 shows the characteristic impedance Z 4 of the impedance matching circuit 7 b connected to the output terminal of the low noise amplifier 6.
- (a) is a circuit diagram of the impedance matching circuit 7 b
- (b) is a voltage amplitude of a signal transmitting impedance matching circuit 7 b
- (c) is Inpi 'dance matching circuit 7 4 shows an equivalent circuit of b.
- the impedance matching circuit 7b shown in FIG. 8 (a) is composed of the impedance matching transmission line 40 and the J-imperance transmission line 43 as described in FIG.
- the impedance matching transmission line 40 is connected to the 1/4 wavelength transmission line (1/4 wavelength distribution constant line) 4 2 having the characteristic impedance Z i and the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 42.
- the line length of the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 42 is 1/4 wavelength ⁇ / 4, similarly to the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 32 (see FIG. 5 (a)).
- the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 4 2 is connected to the J-inverter transmission line 43 via the input terminal ⁇ 8 — ⁇ 8 ′, and the J-inverter transmission line 43 is connected to the transmission line 4. Connected to 5.
- the reactance compensating transmission line 4 1 has an output terminal [rho 7 - through the [rho 7 'is connected to the mouth one noise amplifier 6 (see FIG. 1).
- the line length of the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 42 is the same as the line length of the 1Z4 wavelength transmission line 32 (see FIG. 5 (a)), and the filter 8 explained in FIG.
- the half-wavelength parallel resonator 81 is set to half of a half-wavelength transmission line (not shown).
- the output impedance (load impedance) Z s of the oral noise amplifier 6 is extremely small compared to the above-described input impedance Z L , the low noise amplifier 6 can be treated as a short circuit. No impulse is required, and the J impulse transmission line 43 is connected to the input end P 8 —P 8 ′ side only by the J impulse transmission (inverter of the impedance inverting circuit) J 2 . Make up.
- the output impedance Z s of the oral noise amplifier 6 is defined as in Expression 29.
- R s is the resistance of the output impedance Z s
- X s represents the Riaku evening Nsu outgoing Kainbida Nsu Z s.
- Equation 22 the design formula shown in Equation 22 is expressed as the admittance of the 1/4 wavelength transmission line 42 from Equation 22, Equation 25, Equation 34, and Equation 35. , 37.
- Equation 23 The design formula shown in Equation 23 is expressed by Equation 38 as J impeller (imperance of the impedance inverting circuit) J 2 formed by the J impeller transmission line 43.
- the impedance matching transmission line 40 has a line width W3 and an interval G3 as described in FIG. 6 (a), and furthermore, the impedance matching transmission line 40 has a width as described in FIG. 8 (a).
- the reactance compensating transmission line 41 since the quarter-wave transmission line 42, characteristics I impedance Z 4 of the impedance matching transmission line 40 described above. Is represented by the impedance based on the admittance Yi.
- the impedance matching circuit 7b is equivalent to a half-wavelength series resonator (not shown), similarly to the filter 80 shown in FIG. 7, and functions as a one-stage filter using the half-wavelength series resonator.
- the impedance matching circuit 7a similarly to the above-described impedance matching circuit 7a, it is possible to adjust the band together with the impedance matching based on the equations 37 and 38.
- the power amplifier 5 shown in FIG. 1 has a relatively large input impedance and a relatively small output impedance, similarly to the mouth noise amplifier 6, so that the power amplifier 5 has an input terminal and an output terminal.
- the present invention can be similarly applied to the impedance matching circuits 7c and 7d connected respectively.
- the impedance matching circuit 7c has the same configuration as the impedance matching circuit 7a shown in FIG. 3 which is inverted left and right in FIGS. 3 and 5, and the impedance matching circuit 7d Since the impedance matching circuit 7b shown in FIG. 6 has the same configuration as that obtained by inverting left and right in FIG. 6 and FIG. 8, the description thereof will be omitted.
- the power amplifier 5 and the mouth noise amplifier 6 have been described.
- the present invention is not limited to this.
- the phase shifter 10a The present invention can also be applied to loads such as a voltage-controlled oscillator (not shown) included in 10 b, mixer 1 la, lib, 11 c, lld, and phase-locked loop 9.
- the load is not limited to the capacitive load, but may be an inductive load. In this case, since the adjustment amount ⁇ 1 becomes positive, the impedance matching transmission lines 30 and 40-length L!
- the above-described wireless communication device 1 is used as a mobile communication device including a microphone transmitting unit and a speaker receiving unit. Will be described.
- the wireless communication device 1 When an operator performs, for example, a voice call using the wireless communication device 1, first, when a start command is input through a start unit (not shown) provided in the wireless communication device 1, the operator receives the start command and receives a wireless communication. Device 1 is activated. Further, when the operator inputs a connection command through input means (not shown) provided in the wireless communication device 1, the wireless communication device 1 transmits an audio signal via a public line or a network. Connect to another wireless communication device 1 '(not shown) so that transmission and reception are possible.
- the audio signal is input to DSP (not shown).
- DSP performs predetermined digital processing such as encoding on the input audio signal, it outputs as an input signal S I1 to the digital processing circuit 2c of the semiconductor device 2 shown in FIG.
- the digital modulator 18 of the digital processing circuit 2c performs predetermined digital processing on the input signal SI1, it divides the input signal SI1 bit by bit and outputs it to the A / D conversion circuit 2b.
- the DA converters 16a and 16 of the A / D conversion circuit 2b convert the divided input signal SI1 into analog signals and output them to the one-pass filters 13c and 13d, respectively.
- the low-pass filters 13 c and 13 d output the input signal SI 1 to the mixers 1 1 c and 11 d of the RF circuit 2 a after removing the harmonic components of the input signal SI 1.
- the phase shift locked loop 9 of the RF circuit 2a outputs the carrier signal of the carrier frequency (2.45 [GHz]) to the phase shifter 10b, and the phase shifter 10b phase is 9 0 0 different Kiyaria signals, respectively, and outputs the mixer 1 1 c, the lid.
- the mixers 11c and 11d ..
- the impedance matching circuits 7c and 7d are set to perform impedance matching that maximizes the power, the power of the input signal SI1 is minimized without losing the power.
- the signal is amplified to a predetermined value by the amplifier 5 and output via the impedance matching circuit 7d.
- a predetermined bandwidth is set by the fractional bandwidth w of Equations 37 and 38, the input signal SI 1 corresponding to the fractional bandwidth w is transmitted to the antenna 3 via the switch 12. Is entered.
- the antenna 3 radiates the input signal SI 1 by electromagnetic waves as an output signal S ⁇ 1 in a form in which the power is sufficiently amplified.
- the output signal SO1 is transmitted to another wireless communication device 1 'via a public line, a network, or the like.
- the phase-locked loop 9 also outputs a carrier signal to the phase shifter 10a in the same manner as the phase shifter 10b, and the phase of the phase shifter 10a differs by 90 °.
- the carrier signals are output to mixers 1 la 1 1 b, respectively.
- the mixers 11a and 11b combine the input signal SI2 with the above-mentioned carrier signal and perform quadrature demodulation.Then, as an I-axis baseband signal and a Q-axis baseband signal, one-pass filter Output to 13a, 13b.
- Mouth-pass fill 1 3a, 1 3b are I-axis spanned signals And removes the harmonic component of the Q-axis base PAN signal and outputs it to the variable gain amplifiers 14a and 14b.
- the variable gain amplifiers 14a and 14b increase the attenuated signal levels of the I-axis baseband signal and the Q-axis basespand signal and output the signals to the AD converters 15a and 15b.
- the AD comparators 15a and 15b convert the input I-axis baseband signal and Q-axis baseband signal into digital signals and send them to the digital demodulator 17 of the digital processing circuit 2c. Output.
- the digital demodulator 17 performs a predetermined digital demodulation on the I-axis baseband signal and the Q-axis baseband signal, and outputs the output signal SO2 to a DSP (not shown).
- the DSP performs predetermined digital processing such as decoding on the input output signal S ⁇ 2, the DSP outputs the output signal SO2 to the speaker.
- the output signal SO 2 is output as a sound signal of good sound quality through the speaker.
- the impedance matching circuit 7 is configured such that impedance matching and band adjustment can be performed, but one invar and the line length is ⁇ / 4 + ⁇ 1. Therefore, the occupied area can be made relatively small. As a result, it is possible to realize a SoC (System On a Chip) that realizes the entire system in one chip for the semiconductor element 2, and to reduce the size and cost of the semiconductor element and the wireless communication device 1.
- SoC System On a Chip
- the impedance matching transmission lines 30 and 40 of the impedance matching circuit 7 do not necessarily need to be formed in a straight line as shown in FIGS. 3 (a) and 6 (a). For example, it may be configured in a meandering shape to further reduce the size.
- FIG. 9 shows a (partially omitted) top view of the transmission line of the impedance matching circuit 7a when the width of the transmission line is reduced.
- the line width W10 and the interval G10 of the transmission line 35 are narrowed by making the line width W1 and the interval G1 of the transmission line 35 explained in FIG. Has been done. Therefore, while the width of the transmission line is narrowed, the characteristic impedance Z 35 of the transmission line 35 becomes Z. Has been maintained.
- the line width W 20 and the interval G 20 of the impedance matching transmission line 30 are set to the same ratio as the line width W 2 and the interval G 2 of the impedance matching transmission line 30 described in FIG. And narrowed. Therefore, while the width of the transmission line is reduced, the characteristic impedance Z 3 of the impedance matching transmission line 30 is obtained. Is maintained at a predetermined value (83.4 [ ⁇ ] as described above).
- the stubs 25 and 25 are set to have a predetermined line length in forming the inductance L of the K invernance (see FIG. 3 (b)).
- the distance between the ground conductor 2 2, 2 2 in Inpa Isseki transmission line 3 3 is limited to the ground conductor distance L E are shown in Figure 9.
- the same reference numerals as those described in FIG. 3 (a) denote the same parts, and a description thereof will be omitted.
- FIG. Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of an impedance matching circuit 7a shown by an equivalent circuit using K-inverter.
- Fig. 10 (a) shows the case where the transmission line is formed in a meander shape
- Fig. 10 (b) shows the transmission line.
- C) reduces the width of the ground conductor
- (d) removes the adjacent ground conductor
- (e) forms the transmission line within the distance of the ground conductor. It shows the case where it is done.
- the linear impedance matching transmission line 30 explained in FIG. 3 (c) is connected to the signal line (white line) 21 and the slit (black).
- (Lines) 23 and 23 turn left and right in the figure, forming a meandering shape. Since the signal lines 21 are formed so as to be adjacent to each other via the slit 23, the grounding conductor 22a, and the slit 23, the grounding conductor 22a in the impedance matching circuit 7a is formed. Occupied area can be reduced.
- a meandering impedance matching transmission line 30 is arranged between the K-imper transmission line 33 and the low-noise amplifier 6. I have.
- the ground conductor width t of the ground conductor 22a is smaller than the ground conductor width t shown in FIG. 10 (b).
- the area occupied by the ground conductor 22a in the impedance matching circuit 7a is The width can be reduced by making it smaller than the conductor width t.
- the grounding body width t is set to the gap G (not shown) of the slit 23, and the signal lines 21 are connected to each other only through the slit 23. Since they are formed adjacent to each other, the area occupied by the ground conductor 22a in the impedance matching circuit 7a can be further reduced.
- the bent portions VD and VD are provided on the transmission line on the K imper transmission line 33 side of the impedance matching transmission line 30, and the impedance matching is performed.
- the transmission line 30 is configured within the range of the ground conductor distance L E (within the broken line).
- the shape of the impedance matching transmission line 30 is shown as a miniaturized shape in which the signal line 21 is formed in a meandering shape by changing the direction of the signal line 21 in the horizontal direction in the figure.
- the present invention is not limited to this configuration as long as the signal line 21 has an appropriate shape.
- the signal line 21 may be formed in a meandering shape by changing the direction in the vertical direction in the figure.
- the miniaturization of the impedance matching transmission line described above is the same for the impedance matching circuits 7b, 7c, and 7d, and a description thereof will be omitted.
- FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view (partially omitted) of the impedance matching circuit 7.
- FIG. 11A shows a case where the silicon substrate 27 is formed on the back surface 20B of the dielectric substrate 20, and FIG. The figure shows a case where a ground layer 29 is formed on the back surface 20B of the dielectric substrate 20.
- a silicon substrate 27 made of silicon (Si) on a silicon substrate 27 made of silicon (Si), a silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ) functioning as a dielectric substrate 20 is formed. An oxide layer has been deposited.
- a signal line 21 made of aluminum (A 1), and a ground made of aluminum (A 1) through slits 23 and 23 from both sides of the signal line 21.
- Conductors 22 and 22 are formed.
- the dielectric substrate 20 made of silicon dioxide (Si 2 ) is used.
- a signal line 21 made of aluminum (A 1) and ground conductors 22, 22 made of aluminum (A 1) are formed on the upper side via slits 23, 23.
- the back surface (one surface of the dielectric substrate) 20B of the dielectric substrate 20 has aluminum A ground layer 29 made of (A 1) is formed.
- the impedance matching circuit 7 shown in FIGS. 11 (a) and 11 (b) when the quality factor Q (unloaded Qu) is calculated based on a predetermined electromagnetic field simulation, the results are as shown in FIG. 11 (a).
- the Qu of the impedance matching circuit 7 shown is “20”, while the Qu of the impedance matching circuit 7 shown in FIG. 11 (b) is “39”. That is, the impedance matching circuit 7 forms the ground layer 29 on the back surface (one surface of the dielectric substrate) 20 B of the dielectric substrate 20 without forming silicon (S i) having a large resistance value. As a result, the quality factor Q can be improved.
- Each of the impedance matching circuits 7 shown in FIGS. 12 (a), (b), and (c) has the same structure as the impedance matching circuit 7 described in FIG. 11 (b).
- a ground layer 29 is formed on 20B.
- silicon dioxide (S i 0 2) oxidation layer 3 are deposited consisting in the et, on the oxide layer 53, silicon nitride (S A nitride layer 50 of iN) is formed.
- the transmission lines of the signal line 21 and the ground conductor 22 are arranged such that the plate thickness D is Di ⁇ D 2 and D 3 in the order of (a), (b), and (c) in FIG. It is formed in.
- FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view (partially omitted) of the impedance matching circuit 7 when the thickness D is increased by the stacked dielectric layers 20a, 20b, 20c, and 20d. .
- FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view as viewed in the direction A shown in FIG. 2, similarly to FIGS. 11 and 12.
- the dielectric substrate 20 is composed of four layers based on, for example, a TSMC (registered trademark) design rule (for example, a 0.25 m process) corresponding to an international standard of a semiconductor manufacturing process.
- a signal line (signal layer) 21 D made of aluminum (A 1) is formed on the third dielectric layer 20 c, and aluminum is inserted from both sides of the signal line 21 D through slits 23 D and 23 D.
- a fourth metal layer (M4) composed of a ground conductor (ground conductive layer) 22D and 22D made of niobium (A1) is formed.
- a signal line (signal layer) 21 E made of aluminum (A 1) and slits 23 E and 23 E from both sides of the signal line 21 E are formed on the fourth dielectric layer 20 d.
- a fifth metal layer (M5) made of aluminum (A1) and a ground conductor (ground conductive layer) 22E, 22E is formed.
- the signal lines 21D and 2IE and the ground conductors 22D and 22E are arranged so as to overlap in the vertical direction in the drawing.
- a plurality of vias 51, 52 having a predetermined diameter are formed. That is, the signal line 21 D of the fourth metal layer and the signal line 21 E of the fifth metal layer are conducted by the via (interlayer conduction means, interlayer conduction line) 51, and the ground conduction of the fourth metal layer is performed.
- the conductors 22D, 22D and the ground conductors 22E, 22E of the fifth metal layer are also electrically connected by the via (interlayer conductive means, interlayer conductive line) 52.
- the transmission line is formed to have a plate thickness D3 shown in FIG. 12 (c).
- a design rule that defines the line width and the thickness of the transmission line formed on the semiconductor element 2 is set, and such a design rule defines the transmission line plate per layer. Even when the thickness D is limited, the thickness D can be increased without any problem, and the quality factor Q can be improved. As a result, as a circuit constituting the semiconductor element 2, the impedance matching circuit 7, which is laminated and configured, for example, with CMOS, is connected to the semiconductor element 2. Child 2 can be configured on.
- the material examples of the signal line 21, the ground conductor 22, and the ground layer 29 shown in FIGS. 11 to 13 and the material of the dielectric substrate 20 and the dielectric layer 20 ⁇ As an example, aluminum (A 1) and silicon dioxide (Sio 2 ) are shown, but the material is not particularly limited as long as the material has similar physical characteristics.
- the impedance matching circuit 7 composed of the stacked dielectric layers 20 ⁇ and having the impedance matching transmission line 30 formed in a meander shape as shown in FIG.
- FIG. Fig. 14 is a top view of the transmission line of the impedance matching circuit 7a having the miniaturized impedance matching transmission line 30.
- (a) shows the case where the fourth metal layer (M4) is formed.
- b) shows a case where the fourth metal layer and the fifth metal layer (M4 + M5) are connected by vias 51 and 52.
- the impedance matching circuit 7a shown in FIGS. 14 (a) and (b) was designed based on the TSMC (registered trademark) design rule (for example, 0.25 ⁇ m process). It is an example.
- TSMC registered trademark
- the width of the K-inverse transmission line 33 becomes 144 [ ⁇ m].
- the lateral width of the meandering impedance matching transmission line 30 is 857 [m].
- the impedance matching circuit 7a in which the fourth metal layer and the fifth metal layer are connected by peers 51 and 52 as shown in FIG.
- the width of the K-member transmission line 33 is 180 inm]
- the width of the meandering impedance matching transmission line 30 is 4.55 i / irn].
- the occupied area S can be set to approximately 0.1 [mm 2 ], and the occupied area of the conventional impedance matching circuit 60 shown in FIG. 5 [mm 2 ]).
- the impedance D of the impedance matching circuit 7a shown in FIG. 14 (b) is increased as described above, the thickness D of the signal line 21 and the ground conductor 22 is increased, so that the quality factor Q can be improved. it can.
- FIG. 15 shows a calculation result of the S parameter over time for the impedance matching circuit 7a shown in FIG.
- the solid line in the figure indicates the S parameter of the impedance matching circuit 7a (see FIG. 14 (a)) on which the fourth metal layer (M4) is formed.
- the broken line in the figure indicates the S parameter of the impedance matching circuit 7a (see Fig. 14 (b)) in which the fourth and fifth metal layers (M4 + M5) are connected by peers 51 and 52. It shows one night.
- the S parameter shows the return loss IS (the rate at which the input signal is reflected and returned) and the insertion loss IS 21 I (the rate at which the input signal is transmitted in the forward direction).
- the return loss ISI has a peak at the center frequency ⁇ 0 , 2.45 [GHz] at the top of the figure, and the input loss IS 2 I similarly has a peak at 2.45 [GHz]. It has a peak at the bottom in the figure. Thus, the signal has very little reflection and center frequency ⁇ .
- the impedance matching circuit 7a functions as a filter capable of impedance matching and band adjustment, as described above, although the size is reduced as shown in Fig. 14. I have.
- the impedance matching circuit 7 has a one-stage filter, but the impedance matching circuit 7 is not necessarily limited to one stage, and may be multistage.
- a half-wave multi-stage filter in which a half-wave resonance circuit and a half-wave resonance circuit are alternately connected between the transmission line 33 and the transmission line 35 of the impedance matching circuit 7a. (Not shown) may be interposed.
- a 1/4 wavelength multistage filter 90a, 90b may be configured as a bandpass filter.
- the Z4 wavelength multistage filter 90a is interposed between the K inverter transmission line 33 and the transmission line 35 of the impedance matching circuit 7a, as shown in FIG. 16 (a).
- Wavelength transmission lines (resonant circuits) 91 a, 91 b,, 91 n-1 and inverter transmission lines (impedance inverting circuits) 92 a, 92 b, ..., 92 n alternately It is connected.
- invar—the evening transmission lines 92 a, 92 b, 1, and 92 ⁇ are formed.
- ⁇ Inva overnight and J inva—the evening is a 1/4 wavelength transmission line 91 a, 91 b, ... , 9 1 ⁇ -1 so that they are adjacent to each other.
- the 1/4 wavelength multi-stage filter 90b is interposed between the J-impedator transmission line 43 and the transmission line 45 of the impedance matching circuit 7b.
- 14 wavelength transmission lines (resonant circuits) 93a, 93b, ..., 93 ⁇ -1 and impeller transmission lines (impedance inverting circuits) 95a, 95b, ... , 95 n are connected alternately.
- the inverter transmission lines 95a, 95b, ..., 95 ⁇ are composed of a 1-wavelength transmission line 9 3a ⁇ 93, ... Connected side by side via 93 n-1.
- the impedance matching circuit 7 composed of a coplanar line has been described.
- a microstrip line or a signal line in which a signal line and a ground conductor are respectively formed on the front and back of the dielectric substrate are used.
- the present invention can be applied to a distributed constant line such as a strip line formed in a dielectric substrate.
- the impedance matching circuit according to the present invention is useful as an impedance matching circuit for transmitting a radio signal such as a microwave or a microwave, and is particularly suitable for a case where the impedance matching circuit is formed on a semiconductor element. I have.
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