Silicon area of FBMC receivers for CMOS 65nm and comparison to OFDM receivers

Vincent Berg (1) , Jean-Baptiste Doré (1) , Sylvie Mayrargue (1)

1 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information

New waveforms are considered by the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks to exploit the underutilized fragmented spectrum. FBMC is one possibility as it provides better adjacent channel leakage. This paper brings a first estimate of silicon area for FBMC in comparison to OFDM assuming a CMOS 65nm technology. The paper concludes that the silicon area overhead introduced by much more complex waveforms is deemed acceptable.

Keywords: 65nm CMOS; Silicon Area; OFDM; 5G Waveform; FBMC; Complexity; FPGA Implementation

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

Vincent Berg, Jean-Baptiste Doré, Sylvie Mayrargue. Silicon area of FBMC receivers for CMOS 65nm and comparison to OFDM receivers. EUCNC 2017, Jun 2017, Oulu, Finland. ⟨10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980690⟩. ⟨cea-01565877v2⟩