RF CMOS SoC Architectures and Building Blocks

Author

Ni, Wayne ; Li, Zhenbiao ; Mehta, Jesal

Author_Institution

Comlent Commun. Inc., Shanghai

fYear

2006

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1833

Lastpage

1836

Abstract

RF CMOS technologies have proven to be the critical path to the ever-integrated solutions in the wireless communications applications ranging from cellular technologies to consumer applications (Bonnaud et al., 2006 and Vassiliou et al., 2006). Advancements both in innovative radio architectures and rich CMOS IC designs made the system-on-chip (SoC) commercial products widely possible. This paper will discuss CMOS prevalent wireless RFIC architectures. In doing so, what the challenges are for the RFIC building blocks in realizing the SoC design. As a design example, a critical building block used in Comlent´s TD-SCDMA transceiver has been demonstrated

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; radiofrequency identification; system-on-chip; CMOS IC designs; RF CMOS SoC architectures; building blocks; cellular technologies; consumer applications; radio architectures; system-on-chip commercial products; wireless RFIC architecture; wireless communications applications; Baseband; Business; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Costs; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Semiconductor device noise; Silicon germanium; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, 2006. ICSICT '06. 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0160-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0161-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2006.306460

Filename

4098556