system solution. In this paper the RF core of an 802.11 n 2× 2 b/g band, 2× 1 a-band MIMO
WLAN SoC with die area of 3.83 mm 2 in 45nm CMOS is described. As shown in Fig. 19.1. 1
the SoC has integrated Power Amplifier (PA) for both bands and T/R switch in b/g band,
eliminating the need for an expensive external Front-End Module. The LO is synthesized by
a two-step DLL-PLL architecture to meet the stringent phase-noise requirements.