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This paper proposes the estimation and compensation modules of digital frequency-dependent (FD) I/Q imbalance and group delay for single carrier (SC) mode with 15 Gbps throughput rate in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. The proposed compensation module of a digital recursive filter can mitigate FD I/Q imbalance effects caused by the −3 dB corner imbalance of the reconstruction and anti-aliasing filters of I/Q branches. The proposed recursive filter with the appropriate initial coefficients based on the result of Golay sequence estimation can shorten the convergence time and precisely acquire the desired coefficients. The average image rejection ratio (IRR) performance after compensating by the proposed module can be improved from 21.97 dB to 47.54 dB. Besides, the group delay distortion in reconstruction and anti-aliasing filters will cause intersymbol interference to distort the in-band signal. We employ a digital equalization filter with the filter coefficients derived from the correlation results based on the Golay sequence to compensate the in-band group delay distortion. After the proposed group delay is pre-compensation at TX, the system-level performance of error vector magnitude (EVM) performance is improved by 6.21 dB to −27.78 dB to satisfy the IEEE 802.11ad/ay requirement in 64-QAM mode. The inner RX BER performance with the FD I/Q imbalance and the group delay compensation modules can achieve $3 \times 10^{-3}$ at 23 dB and also satisfy the system requirement at SNR of required 25.52 dB. A four-times parallelism architecture is proposed to work at a clock rate of 625 MHz with 64-QAM mode. The gate count and power consumption of the proposed design are 154.4 K and 16.2 mW, respectively.

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) RF and analog front-end circuits are very susceptible to chip process and temperature variation, which cause I/Q mismatch and DC offset. As a consequence, the system performance can be seriously degraded, especially in wideband multi-Gb/s systems. This paper proposes an online estimation and compensation in the baseband receiver end of a single carrier (SC) system for TX and RX frequency independent (FI) initial and time-varying (TV) I/Q mismatch and DC-offset. Based on specification of IEEE 802.11ay, the compensated image rejection ratio (IRR) performance of the TX and RX FI I/Q mismatch effects can be improved from 16.43 dB to 54.70 dB at SNR of 25.52 dB. Moreover, we propose a novel algorithm based on the Golay sequence for estimation and compensation to cancel TX and RX initial/TV DC-offset. The DC-offset in the I/Q channel is improved from −56.46 dB/−58.56 dB to −97.30 dB/−98.70 dB at SNR of 25.52 dB. In the hardware implementation, a four-time parallelism architecture are proposed to work at a 625 MHz clock rate with a 28-nm HPC_PLUS CMOS process under 64-QAM mode for 15 Gbps transmission. Using a clock gating control scheme for FI I/Q mismatch and DC-offset estimator, the total power of the proposed the module can be reduced from 59.5 mW to 32.7 mW. The gate count and power of the proposed estimation/compensation design are only 2.94% and 1.69% of the overall digital RX baseband gate count and power consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]