ISSCC 2017
Session 3
Digital Processors
A 60pJ/b 300Mb/s 128×8 Massive MIMO Precoder-Detector in 28nm FD-SOI
Further exploitation of the spatial domain, as in Massive MIMO (MaMi) systems, is imperative to meet future communication requirements [1]. Up-scaling of conventional 4×4 small-scale MIMO implementations to MaMi is prohi
ISSCC 2014
Session 21
Clocking & PLLs
A 2.4-to-5.3GHz Dual-Core CMOS VCO with Concentric 8-Shaped Coils
now at Marvell, Pavia, Italy, 3 Ericsson Modems, Lund, Sweden 1 2 Despite recent attempts to relax the phase-noise demands on voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) for cellular communications [1], mainstream radios requi
ISSCC 2013
Session 20
Clocking & PLLs
A 2.5-to-3.3GHz CMOS Class-D VCO
Power consumption in LC oscillators for wireless communications is a popular research topic, where the Class-C oscillator [1] has been proposed to improve the efficiency of the standard Class-B oscillator (most often ref