Research Article

A Power-Efficient Soft-Output Detector for Spatial-Multiplexing MIMO Communications

Table 4

ASIC Summary of The Proposed MIMO Detector.

ASIC specification
Technology TSMC 0.18 μm 1P6M CMOS

Supply voltage 1.8 V
Power consumption 64-QAM 195.8 mW at 120 MHz
16-QAM 145.5 mW at 120 MHz
Maximum throughput 64-QAM 45 Mbps at 120 MHz
16-QAM 120 Mbps
QPSK 60 Mbps
Maximum clock frequency 120 MHz
Core area 1 . 1 6 9 2 8 × 1 . 1 7 4 1 4 (mm2)