The design and manufacturing of wireless radio frequency (RF) transceivers has developed rapidly in recent ten
yeas due to rapid development of RF integrated circuits and the evolution of high-speed digital signal
processors (DSP). Such high speed signal processors, in conjunction with the developme ...
The continued reduction of integrated circuit feature sizes and
commensurate improvements in device performance are fueling the progress
to higher functionality and new application areas. For example, over the last
15 years, the performance of microprocessors has increased 1000 times.
Analog circuit ...
OSCILLATORS are key building blocks in integrated transceivers. In wired and
wireless communication terminals, the receiver front-end selects, amplifies and
converts the desired high-frequency signal to baseband. At baseband the signal can
then be converted into the digital domain for further data p ...
The third generation (3G) mobile communication system is the next big thing
in the world of mobile telecommunications. The first generation included
analog mobile phones [e.g., Total Access Communications Systems
(TACS), Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT), and Advanced Mobile Phone
Service (AMPS)], and t ...
Mobile multimedia communication is increasingly in demand because of the basic need to communi-
cate at any time, anywhere, using any technology. In addition, to voice communication, people have a
desire to access a range of other services that comprise multimedia elements—text, image, animation,
h ...
The insinuation of telecommunications into the daily fabric of our lives has been
arguably the most important and surprising development of the last 25 years. Before
this revolution, telephone service and its place in our lives had been largely stable
for more than a generation. The growth was, so t ...
In Helsinki during a visiting lecture, an internationally well-known professor in communica-
tionssaid,‘Inthecommunicationssocietywehavemanagedtoconvertourproposalsandideas
to real products, not like in the control engineering society. They have very nice papers and
strong mathematics but most of t ...
This paper reviews key factors to practical ESD
protection design for RF and analog/mixed-signal (AMS) ICs,
including general challenges emerging, ESD-RFIC interactions,
RF ESD design optimization and prediction, RF ESD design
characterization, ESD-RFIC co-design technique, etc. Practical
design exa ...
This book will discuss the topic of Control Systems, which is an interdisciplinary engineering
topic. Methods considered here will consist of both "Classical" control methods, and
"Modern" control methods. Also, discretely sampled systems (digital/computer systems) will
be considered in parallel wit ...