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362 篇相关论文 (2008–2026)

ISSCC 2016 Session 22 RF & Wireless
A 141µW Sensor SoC on OLED/OPD Substrate for SpO2/ExG Monitoring Sticker
Yongsu Lee, Hyeonwoo Lee, Jaeeun Jang, Jihee Lee, Minseo Kim,
applications for broader light emission and low fabrication cost. In addition, Organic Photo Detector (OPD) and OLED can be fabricated on the same substrate with the same process and the OLED film itself can be used for
Jaehyuk Lee, Hyunki Kim, Kyoung-Rog Lee, Kwantae Kim, Hyunwoo Cho, Seu
ISSCC 2016 Session 22 RF & Wireless
A 176-Channel 0.5cm3 0.7g Wireless Implant for Motor Function Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury
Yi-Kai Lo, Chih-Wei Chang, Yen-Cheng Kuan, Stanislav Culaclii,
Brian Kim, Kuanfu Chen, Parag Gad, V. Reggie Edgerton, Wentai Liu University of California, Los Angeles, CA Epidural spinal stimulation has shown effectiveness in recovering the motor function of spinal cord transected r
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
A 1.92mW Filtering Transimpedance Amplifier for RF Current Passive Mixers
Tian Ya Liu, Antonio Liscidini
Nowadays, current passive mixers represent the state of the art for signal downconversion in wireless receivers. In such kind of structures, noise, distortions and losses are strictly correlated to the performance of the
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
A Dual-Frequency 0.7-to-1GHz Balance Network for Electrical Balance Duplexers
Benjamin Hershberg1, Barend van Liempd1,2, Xiaoqiang Zhang1,
seeks to address several key challenges of 4G and 5G mobile systems [1]. The basic principle is shown in Fig. 20.8.1. Duplexer isolation is achieved when the signals in paths 1 and 2 cancel and prevent the TX signal from
Piet Wambacq1,2, Jan Craninckx1 imec, Heverlee, Belgium, 2Vrije Univer
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
An RF-PA Supply Modulator Achieving 83% Efficiency and -136dBm/Hz Noise for LTE-40MHz and GSM 35dBm Applications
Ji-Seon Paek, Yong-Sik Youn, Jeong-Hyun Choi, Dong-Su Kim,
constant supply voltage, has raised interest in enhancing the overall SM-PA efficiency. In the average-powertracking (APT) method, a buck converter simply generates stair-case voltages for a PA according to its required
Jun-Hee Jung, Young-Hwan Choo, Sung-Jun Lee, Seung-Chul Lee, Thomas By
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
A 28GHz Efficient Linear Power Amplifier for 5G Phased Arrays in 28nm Bulk CMOS
Sherif Shakib1, Hyun-Chul Park2, Jeremy Dunworth2,
driving fifthgeneration (5G) wireless standardization towards the deployment of gigabit-per-second mm-Wave technology by 2020. Paving the road to 5G, 200m coverage in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) urban cells was demonstrated
Vladimir Aparin2, Kamran Entesari1 Texas A&M University, College Stati
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
A 300GHz Wirelessly Locked 2×3 Array Radiating 5.4dBm with 5.1% DC-to-RF Efficiency in 65nm CMOS
Samuel Jameson, Eliezer Halpern, Eran Socher
CMOS technology innovations over the last decades opened doors to the possibility of designing fully integrated systems in CMOS at THz frequencies. Small antenna sizes at THz frequencies make CMOS and silicon attractive
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
An 86-to-94.3GHz Transmitter with 15.3dBm Output Power and 9.6% Efficiency in 65nm CMOS
Yue Chao1, Lianming Li2, Howard Cam Luong1
Southeast University, Nanjing, China to the TA high gain, the detection inaccuracy of Δt due to the circuit mismatch in PD and CP2 becomes negligibly small. VCCP is designed as a voltage-controlled current source as show
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China,
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
A Frequency-Reconfigurable mm-Wave Power Amplifier with Active-Impedance Synthesis in an Asymmetrical Non-Isolated Combiner
Chandrakanth Reddy Chappidi, Kaushik Sengupta
A frequency-agile mm-Wave power amplifier capable of reconfiguring itself to operate near-optimally over a wide range of tunable frequencies, yet producing output power >22dBm with PAE>20%, is useful for a wide range of
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
A 68.1-to-96.4GHz Variable-Gain Low-Noise Amplifier in 28nm CMOS
Marco Vigilante, Patrick Reynaert
To allow a maximum theoretical data-rate of 25Gb/s over a 1km distance using 64QAM, an E-Band system should feature a 20dBm-output-power TX and an RX with 10dB maximum noise figure (NF) over two bands of 5GHz from 71 to
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
ISSCC 2016 Session 20 RF & Wireless
A 300GHz 40nm CMOS Transmitter with 32-QAM 17.5Gb/s/ch Capability over 6 Channels
Kosuke Katayama1, Kyoya Takano1, Shuhei Amakawa1,
Shinsuke Hara2, Akifumi Kasamatsu2, Koichi Mizuno3, Kazuaki Takahashi3, Takeshi Yoshida1, Minoru Fujishima1 Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A 2GHz 244fs-Resolution 1.2ps-Peak-INL EdgeInterpolator-Based Digital-to-Time Converter in 28nm CMOS
Sebastian Sievert1, Ofir Degani2, Assaf Ben-Bassat2,
Universität München, Munich, Germany 1 4 Digital-to-time converters (DTC) generate a clock with a time delay (or phase shift) based on a digital input code. They can be used in clock-and-data-recovery (CDR) circuits [1,2
Rotem Banin2, Ashoke Ravi3, Bernd-Ulrich Klepser1, Zdravko Boos1, Dori
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A Mixed-Mode Injection Frequency-Locked Loop for Self-Calibration of Injection Locking Range and Phase Noise in 0.13μm CMOS
Dongseok Shin, Sanjay Raman, Kwang-Jin Koh
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Injection-locked oscillators (ILOs) are widely used to realize low-noise carrier sources, particularly at mm-Waves by leveraging harmonic injection, but only within a narrow locking range (Δ
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A 0.003mm2 1.7-to-3.5GHz Dual-Mode TimeInterleaved Ring-VCO Achieving 90-to-150kHz 1/f3 Phase-Noise Corner
Jun Yin1, Pui-In Mak1, Franco Maloberti2, Rui P. Martins1,3
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal 1 3 Ring-VCOs (RVCOs) [1] have been avoided for over a decade for highperformance RF systems due to their much lower FOM (<165dB [2]) than that of their LC counterparts from l
University of Macau, Macau, China, 2University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy,
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A 190.5GHz Mode-Switching VCO with 20.7% Continuous Tuning Range and Maximum Power of -2.1dBm in 0.13μm BiCMOS
Rouzbeh Kananizadeh, Omeed Momeni
Wideband mm-Wave and terahertz (THz) applications, including high data-rate communications, high-resolution radar and spectroscopy, require wideband signal sources. Nevertheless, low quality factor of varactors and lossy
University of California, Davis, CA
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A Complementary VCO for IoE that Achieves a 195dBc/Hz FOM and Flicker Noise Corner of 200kHz
David Murphy, Hooman Darabi
An LC oscillator can achieve near optimal performance if the common-mode of the circuit is designed to resonate at twice the oscillation frequency [1-3]. Common-mode resonance can be accomplished with an explicit tail in
Broadcom, Irvine, CA
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A 2-to-16GHz BiCMOS ΔΣ Fractional-N PLL Synthesizer with Integrated VCOs and Frequency Doubler for Wireless Backhaul Applications
Tino Copani, Claudio Asero, Matteo Colombo, Paolo Aliberti,
STMicroelectronics, Catania, Italy The flourishing of ubiquitous wireless communication networks has pushed the development and deployment of complex RF telecom systems. Concurrently, the IC industry has been making an e
Giuseppe Martino, Francesco Clerici
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A 4.2μs-Settling-Time 3rd-Order 2.1GHz PhaseNoise-Rejection PLL Using a Cascaded TimeAmplified Clock-Skew Sub-Sampling DLL
Zhiqiang Huang1, Bingwei Jiang1, Lianming Li2, Howard Cam Luong1
tuning range compared with LC-VCO-based PLLs. However, they typically have higher jitter and larger frequency drift due to high sensitivity to PVT variations. Several PLL architectures were proposed to reject the phase n
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Sout
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
A Scalable 28GHz Coupled-PLL in 65nm CMOS with Single-Wire Synchronization for LargeScale 5G mm-Wave Arrays
Abhishek Agrawal, Arun Natarajan
Demonstrations of mm-Wave arrays with >50 elements in silicon has led to an interest in large-scale mm-Wave MIMO arrays for 5G networks, which promise substantial improvements in network capacity [1,2]. Practical conside
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
ISSCC 2016 Session 2 RF & Wireless
An Integrated 0.56THz Frequency Synthesizer with 21GHz Locking Range and -74dBc/Hz Phase Noise at 1MHz Offset in 65nm CMOS
Yan Zhao1, Zuow-Zun Chen1, Gabriel Virbila1, Yinuo Xu1,
Richard Al Hadi1, Yanghyo Kim1,2, Adrian Tang1,2, Theodore Reck2, Huan-Neng Chen3, Chewnpu Jou3, Fu-Lung Hsueh3, Mau-Chung Frank Chang1,4 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A ±3ppm 1.1mW FBAR Frequency Reference with 750MHz Output and 750mV Supply
Kannan A. Sankaragomathi1, Jabeom Koo1, Richard Ruby2, Brian P. Otis1
Multiple emerging wireless applications (body-worn devices and IoT, for example) will demand previously impossible thin-film form factors and low system cost. One key enabling technology for this paradigm is a new class
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2Avago Technologies, San Jose,
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A 2.4GHz VCO with FOM of 190dBc/Hz at 10kHz-to2MHz Offset Frequencies in 0.13μm CMOS Using an ISF Manipulation Technique
Ali Mostajeran1,2, Mehrdad Sharif Bakhtiar1, Ehsan Afshari2
For the last few decades, phase-noise (PN) improvement of VCOs has been an intriguing problem and remains as one of the challenges in transceiver design. PN in CMOS VCOs, especially close-in PN, greatly suffers from flic
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2Cornell University, It
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A 2.4GHz 4mW Inductorless RF Synthesizer
Long Kong, Behzad Razavi
Recent developments in RF receiver design have eliminated all on-chip inductors except for that used in the local oscillator. This paper addresses this “last inductor” problem and proposes an integer-N synthesizer archit
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A 70.5-to-85.5GHz 65nm Phase-Locked Loop with Passive Scaling of Loop Filter
Zhiqiang Huang1, Howard Cam Luong1, Baoyong Chi2, Zhihua Wang2, Haikun Jia2
(PLLs) are required to have wide a frequency tuning range from 71 to 86GHz and low phase noise of -90dBc/Hz @1MHz [1], which are still very challenging even with aggressive CMOS scaling [2]. Another issue associated with
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Tsin
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A 320GHz Phase-Locked Transmitter with 3.3mW Radiated Power and 22.5dBm EIRP for Heterodyne THz Imaging Systems
Ruonan Han1,2, Chen Jiang1, Ali Mostajeran1, Mohammad Emadi1,
STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France 1 2 Non-ionizing terahertz imaging using solid-state integrated electronics has been gaining increasing attention over the past few years. However, there are currently several factors
Hamidreza Aghasi1, Hani Sherry3, Andreia Cathelin3, Ehsan Afshari1 Cor
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A 1/f Noise Upconversion Reduction Technique Applied to Class-D and Class-F Oscillators
Mina Shahmohammadi, Masoud Babaie, Robert Bogdan Staszewski
The 1/f (flicker) noise upconversion degrades the close-in spectrum of CMOS RF oscillators. The resulting 1/f3 phase noise (PN) can be an issue in PLLs with a loop bandwidth of <1MHz, which practically implies all cellul
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A VCO with Implicit Common-Mode Resonance
David Murphy, Hooman Darabi, Hao Wu
CMOS VCO performance metrics have not improved significantly over the last decade. Indeed, the best VCO Figure of Merit (FOM) currently reported was published by Hegazi back in 2001 [1]. That topology, shown in Fig. 25.3
Broadcom, Irvine, CA
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A 2.2GHz -242dB-FOM 4.2mW ADC-PLL Using Digital Sub-Sampling Architecture
Teerachot Siriburanon, Satoshi Kondo, Kento Kimura, Tomohiro Ueno,
loop (PLL) using a voltage-domain digitization realized by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). It consists of an 18b Class-C digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO), 4b comparator, digital loop filter (DLF), and frequenc
Satoshi Kawashima, Tohru Kaneko, Wei Deng, Masaya Miyahara, Kenichi Ok
ISSCC 2015 Session 25 RF & Wireless
A Highly-Digital Frequency Synthesizer Using RingOscillator Frequency-to-Digital Conversion and Noise Cancellation
Colin Weltin-Wu1,2, Guobi Zhao2, Ian Galton2
Digital fractional-N PLLs are increasingly used in place of analog fractional-N PLLs as frequency synthesizers in wireless applications, because they avoid large analog loop filters and can tolerate device leakage and lo
Analog Devices, San Jose, CA, 2University of California, San Diego, CA
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A 5.8GHz RF-Powered Transceiver with a 113μW 32-QAM Transmitter Employing the IF-based Quadrature Backscattering Technique
Atsushi Shirane, Haowei Tan, Yiming Fang, Taiki Ibe, Hiroyuki Ito,
network (WSN) application would deeply exacerbate the spectral congestion issue, RF-powered sensor nodes [1,2] still support only low spectral-efficiency modulation such as OOK. State-of-the-art standard-compliant RF tra
Noboru Ishihara, Kazuya Masu Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Jap
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A +10dBm 2.4GHz Transmitter with sub-400pW Leakage and 43.7% System Efficiency
Arun Paidimarri, Nathan Ickes, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
Extreme energy constraints inherent in many exciting new wireless sensing applications (such as [1-3]) virtually dictate that such systems operate with extremely low duty cycles, harvesting and storing energy over long p
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A 600μW Bluetooth Low-Energy Front-End Receiver in 0.13μm CMOS Technology
Anith Selvakumar, Meysam Zargham*, Antonio Liscidini
*Now at Qualcomm, San Diego, CA One of the main goals for the next generation of radios for wireless sensor and body-area networks (WSN and WBAN) is a sub-mW receiver (RX) compliant with energy-harvested supplies. In thi
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A -97dBm-Sensitivity Interferer-Resilient 2.4GHz Wake-Up Receiver Using Dual-IF Multi-N-Path Architecture in 65nm CMOS
Camilo Salazar1,2,3, Andreas Kaiser3, Andreia Cathelin1, Jan Rabaey2
University of Lille, Lille, France 1 3 Wake-up receivers are considered as practical solutions to enable ultra-lowpower (ULP) wireless sensor nodes (WSN) in a dense environment. A low data-rate (<~50kb/s) wake-up receive
STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France, 2University of California, Berkel
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A 6.3mW BLE Transceiver Embedded RX ImageRejection Filter and TX Harmonic-Suppression Filter Reusing On-Chip Matching Network
Tomohiro Sano1, Masakazu Mizokami1, Hiroaki Matsui2, Keisuke Ueda1,
Kenichi Shibata2, Kenji Toyota2, Tatsuhito Saitou3, Hisayasu Sato1, Koichi Yahagi2, Yoshihiro Hayashi4 Renesas Electronics, Itami, Japan, 2Renesas Electronics, Kawasaki, Japan, Renesas System Design, Kawasaki, Japan, 4 R
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A 10mW Bluetooth Low-Energy Transceiver with On-Chip Matching
Jan Prummel, Michail Papamichail, Michele Ancis, John Willms,
Rahul Todi, William Aartsen, Wim Kruiskamp, Johan Haanstra, Enno Opbroek, Søren Rievers, Peter Seesink, Harrie Woering, Chris Smit Dialog Semiconductor, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Wireless sensor nodes present a d
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A 3.7mW-RX 4.4mW-TX Fully Integrated Bluetooth Low-Energy/IEEE802.15.4/Proprietary SoC with an ADPLL-Based Fast Frequency Offset Compensation in 40nm CMOS
Yao-Hong Liu1, Christian Bachmann1, Xiaoyan Wang1, Yan Zhang1,
Ao Ba1, Benjamin Busze1, Ming Ding1, Pieter Harpe2, Gert-Jan van Schaik1, Georgios Selimis1, Hans Giesen1, Jordy Gloudemans1, Adnane Sbai1, Li Huang1, Hiromu Kato3, Guido Dolmans1, Kathleen Philips1, Harmke de Groot1 Hol
ISSCC 2015 Session 13 RF & Wireless
A 227pJ/b -83dBm 2.4GHz Multi-Channel OOK Receiver Adopting Receiver-Based FLL
Lee Jae-Seung1, Kim Joo-Myoung1, Lee Jae-Sup2, Han Seok-Kyun1, Lee Sang-Gug1
The OOK demodulator and symbol timing-recovery circuits convert the ED output into final digital bit streams. In Fig. 13.1.2, for the incoming OOK signal, the initial tuning for the VCO frequency is done by the AFC. The
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon
ISSCC 2014 Session 3 RF & Wireless
An RF-to-BB Current-Reuse Wideband Receiver with Parallel N-Path Active/Passive Mixers and a Single-MOS Pole-Zero LPF
Fujian Lin1, Pui-In Mak1,2, Rui Martins1,2,3
UMTEC, Macao, China, 3 Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal 1 2 The latest passive-mixer-first wideband receiver (RX) [1] has managed to squeeze the power (10 to 12mW) via resonant multi-phase LO and current-reus
University of Macau, Macao, China,
ISSCC 2014 Session 3 RF & Wireless
A Fully Integrated Highly Reconfigurable DiscreteTime Super-Heterodyne Receiver
Massoud Tohidian, Iman Madadi, Robert Bogdan Staszewski
Since the invention of radio, superheterodyne has been the architecture of choice for receivers (RX). Thanks to its high intermediate-frequency (IF), the problems related to flicker noise, time-varying dc offsets, in-ban
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
ISSCC 2014 Session 3 RF & Wireless
A Noise-Cancelling Receiver with Enhanced Resilience to Harmonic Blockers
David Murphy, Hooman Darabi, Hao Xu
By employing two passive-mixer-based downconversion paths, the frequencytranslational noise-cancelling receiver (FTNC-RX) achieves a low noise figure and can tolerate most out-of-band blockers up to 0dBm with little perf
Broadcom, Irvine, CA
ISSCC 2014 Session 3 RF & Wireless
A 1.0-to-2.5GHz Beamforming Receiver with Constant-Gm Vector Modulator Consuming < 9mW per Antenna Element in 65nm CMOS
Michiel C. M. Soer1, Eric A. M. Klumperink1, Bram Nauta1,
Frank E. van Vliet1,2 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, TNO Science and Industry, The Hague, The Netherlands The inverter transconductor in Fig. 3.5.3 is self-biased, and consists of standardVt transistors
ISSCC 2014 Session 3 RF & Wireless
A 1.95GHz Fully Integrated Envelope Elimination and Restoration CMOS Power Amplifier with Envelope/Phase Generator and Timing Aligner for WCDMA and LTE
Kazuaki Oishi1, Eiji Yoshida1, Yasufumi Sakai1, Hideki Takauchi1,
Yoichi Kawano1, Noriaki Shirai2, Hideki Kano2, Masahiro Kudo2, Tomotoshi Murakami2, Tetsuro Tamura2, Shigeaki Kawai2, Shinji Yamaura2, Kazuo Suto2, Hiroshi Yamazaki1, Toshihiko Mori1 Fujitsu Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan
ISSCC 2014 Session 3 RF & Wireless
Polar Antenna Impedance Detection and Tuning for Efficiency Improvement in a 3G/4G CMOS Power Amplifier
Shouhei Kousai, Kohei Onizuka, Takashi Yamaguchi,
efficiency and achieve a long battery life. Therefore, both the peak efficiency and the efficiency loss due to antenna impedance mismatch or power back-off are highly critical design issues. In particular, the challenge
Yasuhiko Kuriyama, Masami Nagaoka Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan One of the
ISSCC 2013 Session 5 RF & Wireless
A 200mW 100MHz-to-4GHz 11th-Order Complex Analog Memory Polynomial Predistorter for Wireless Infrastructure RF Amplifiers Frederic Roger
Scintera, Sunnyvale, CA, The trend toward heterogeneous networks encompassing legacy high-power
base stations (macro-BTS) with lightweight and easy to deploy small cells calls for inexpensive and efficient Power Amplifier (PA) linearizers. Current macroBTSs relying on Digital Predistortion Techniques (DPD) are too
ISSCC 2013 Session 5 RF & Wireless
A New TX Leakage-Suppression Technique for an RFID Receiver Using a Dead-Zone Amplifier Then, IB, (W/L)13, and VLKG, but is not dependent on Vt.
Sang-Sung Lee1, Jaeheon Lee2, In-Young Lee1, Sang-Gug Lee1, Jinho Ko2
continuous wave (CW) to provide energy to the tag while the RX receives data from it. Due to the simultaneous operation of the RX and TX, large TX leakage is the main issue in securing RX sensitivity. Although external i
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, PHYCHIPS, Daejeon, Korea 1 2 RFID systems use b
ISSCC 2013 Session 5 RF & Wireless
A 1.8GHz Linear CMOS Power Amplifier with Supply-Path Switching Scheme for WCDMA/LTE Applications
Kohei Onizuka, Shigehito Saigusa, Shoji Otaka
Low-cost CMOS PAs for mobile terminals have been a focus of attention in recent years. Self-contained, linear CMOS PAs are particularly attractive for smooth replacement of conventional compound semiconductor PA products
Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan
ISSCC 2013 Session 5 RF & Wireless
A 30.3dBm 1.9GHz-Bandwidth 2×4-Array Stacked 5.3GHz CMOS Power Amplifier
Maryam Fathi, David K. Su, Bruce A. Wooley
RF power amplifiers (PA) implemented in a scaled CMOS technology typically have a low maximum output power because they operate from a low supply voltage. This paper proposes an array RF PA able to deliver a large output
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
ISSCC 2013 Session 5 RF & Wireless
A Phase-Noise and Spur Filtering Technique Using Reciprocal-Mixing Cancellation
Mohyee Mikhemar, David Murphy, Ahmad Mirzaei, Hooman Darabi
Recent passive-mixer-based architectures, such as [1], have shown that blockers as large as 0dBm can be tolerated without excessive gain compression. However, even in a perfectly linear receiver, reciprocal mixing of the
Broadcom, Irvine, CA
ISSCC 2013 Session 5 RF & Wireless
Simultaneous Spatial and Frequency-Domain Filtering at the Antenna Inputs Achieving up to +10dBm Out-of-Band/Beam P1dB
Amir Ghaffari, Eric E.A.M. Klumperink, Frank van Vliet, Bram Nauta
Multi-antenna transceivers with beam-forming are recently gaining interest for low GHz frequencies (<6GHz) [1-4]. In the antenna beam, (phase-shifted) signals from multiple antennas add constructively, improving SNR, whi
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
ISSCC 2013 Session 5 RF & Wireless
SAW-Less Analog Front-End Receivers for TDD and FDD either of the two inputs is low. The divider gives a quadrature 25% duty-cycle clock with -174dBc/Hz phase noise at 20MHz offset for 6mA of current consumption (simulated from extracted layout).
Ivan Fabiano1, Marco Sosio1, Antonio Liscidini1,2, Rinaldo Castello1
*Now at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 2 In cellular receivers, out-of-band blockers are generally managed by surfaceacoustic-wave (SAW) filters between the antenna and the low-noise amplifier (LNA). For
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy,