WSI: Technology and power combining techniques for millimeter-wave applications

This workshop highlights the difficulties in designing silicon power amplifiers at MMW and RF frequencies. The presentations will focus of the limitations of CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar and other advanced silicon technologies. In a second part, innovative design approaches such as power-combining techniques will be discussed in order to address the drastic specifications of radio communications from mobile phone standards (GSM, UMTS, WIMAX, WLAN…) to MMW standards (60GHz WMAN, 77GHz radar …).