Monolithic Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits for Low-Power Wireless Communication Systems with High Data Rates

Monolithic Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits for Low-Power Wireless Communication Systems with High Data Rates
Author: Fabian Thome
Publisher: Fraunhofer Verlag
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9783839616086

Wireless communication is a fundamental need in today's information society. While the total global data traffic grows continuously, the mobile portion increases twice as fast. In addition, even higher data rates are necessary for enabling, e.g., high-definition video streaming or mobile gaming. Both requirements put pressure on the efficiency of wireless communication systems since an increasing data rate and data volume consequently induce a higher power consumption and diminish the battery life of mobile powered devices even further. In this work, innovative solutions for radio frequency front-end transmit and receive monolithic microwave integrated circuits with high data rates and a low power consumption are investigated and developed. Based on insights of this thesis, it is believed that MMIC solutions with requirements on, simultaneously, power consumption and RF performance will play an important role in wireless communication and all sorts of other applications.

Low-Power Millimeter Wave Transmitters for High Data Rate Applications

Low-Power Millimeter Wave Transmitters for High Data Rate Applications
Author: Khaled Khalaf
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030166538

This book discusses low power techniques for millimeter wave transmitter IC. Considerations for the front-end design are followed by several implementation examples in the 60GHz band in CMOS down to 28nm technology. Additionally, the design and implementation details of digitally-modulated millimeter wave polar transmitters are presented.

Circuits and Applications Using Silicon Heterostructure Devices

Circuits and Applications Using Silicon Heterostructure Devices
Author: John D. Cressler
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420066951

No matter how you slice it, semiconductor devices power the communications revolution. Skeptical? Imagine for a moment that you could flip a switch and instantly remove all the integrated circuits from planet Earth. A moment’s reflection would convince you that there is not a single field of human endeavor that would not come to a grinding halt, be it commerce, agriculture, education, medicine, or entertainment. Life, as we have come to expect it, would simply cease to exist. Drawn from the comprehensive and well-reviewed Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, this volume covers SiGe circuit applications in the real world. Edited by John D. Cressler, with contributions from leading experts in the field, this book presents a broad overview of the merits of SiGe for emerging communications systems. Coverage spans new techniques for improved LNA design, RF to millimeter-wave IC design, SiGe MMICs, SiGe Millimeter-Wave ICs, and wireless building blocks using SiGe HBTs. The book provides a glimpse into the future, as envisioned by industry leaders.

High-Frequency Integrated Circuits

High-Frequency Integrated Circuits
Author: Sorin Voinigescu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 921
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0521873029

A transistor-level, design-intensive overview of high speed and high frequency monolithic integrated circuits for wireless and broadband systems from 2 GHz to 200 GHz, this comprehensive text covers high-speed, RF, mm-wave, and optical fibre circuits using nanoscale CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and III-V technologies. Step-by-step design methodologies, end-of chapter problems, and practical simulation and design projects are provided, making this an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in circuit design. With an emphasis on device-circuit topology interaction and optimization, it gives circuit designers and students alike an in-depth understanding of device structures and process limitations affecting circuit performance.

Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for mm-Wave Systems: Technology, Modeling and Circuit Applications

Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for mm-Wave Systems: Technology, Modeling and Circuit Applications
Author: Niccolò Rinaldi
Publisher: River Publishers
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 8793519613

The semiconductor industry is a fundamental building block of the new economy, there is no area of modern life untouched by the progress of nanoelectronics. The electronic chip is becoming an ever-increasing portion of system solutions, starting initially from less than 5% in the 1970 microcomputer era, to more than 60% of the final cost of a mobile telephone, 50% of the price of a personal computer (representing nearly 100% of the functionalities) and 30% of the price of a monitor in the early 2000's. Interest in utilizing the (sub-)mm-wave frequency spectrum for commercial and research applications has also been steadily increasing. Such applications, which constitute a diverse but sizeable future market, span a large variety of areas such as health, material science, mass transit, industrial automation, communications, and space exploration. Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for mm-Wave Systems Technology, Modeling and Circuit Applications provides an overview of results of the DOTSEVEN EU research project, and as such focusses on key material developments for mm-Wave Device Technology. It starts with the motivation at the beginning of the project and a summary of its major achievements. The subsequent chapters provide a detailed description of the obtained research results in the various areas of process development, device simulation, compact device modeling, experimental characterization, reliability, (sub-)mm-wave circuit design and systems.

FM-UWB Transceivers for Autonomous Wireless Systems

FM-UWB Transceivers for Autonomous Wireless Systems
Author: Nitz Saputra
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 100079931X

Significant research effort has been devoted to the study and realization of autonomous wireless systems for wireless sensor and personal-area networking, the internet of things, and machine-to-machine communications. Low-power RF integrated circuits, an energy harvester and a power management circuit are fundamental elements of these systems. An FM-UWB Transceiver for Autonomous Wireless Systems presents state-of-the-art developments in low-power FM-UWB transceiver realizations. The design, performance and implementation of prototype transceivers in CMOS technology are presented. A working hardware realization of an autonomous node that includes a prototype power management circuit is also proposed and detailed in this book.Technical topics include: Low-complexity FM-UWB modulation schemesLow-power FM-UWB transceiver prototypes in CMOS technologyCMOS on-chip digital calibration techniquesSolar power harvester and power management in CMOS for low-power RF circuitsAn FM-UWB Transceiver for Autonomous Wireless Systems is an ideal text and reference for engineers working in wireless communication industries, as well as academic staff and graduate students engaged in electrical engineering and communication systems research.

THz Communications

THz Communications
Author: Thomas Kürner
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030737381

This book describes the fundamentals of THz communications, spanning the whole range of applications, propagation and channel models, RF transceiver technology, antennas, baseband techniques, and networking interfaces. The requested data rate in wireless communications will soon reach from 100 Gbit/s up to 1 Tbps necessitating systems with ultra-high bandwidths of several 10s of GHz which are available only above 200 GHz. In the last decade, research at these frequency bands has made significant progress, enabling mature experimental demonstrations of so-called THz communications, which are thus expected to play a vital role in future wireless networks. In addition to chapters by leading experts on the theory, modeling, and implementation of THz communication technology, the book also features the latest experimental results and addresses standardization and regulatory aspects. This book will be of interest to both academic researchers and engineers in the telecommunications industry.

Fabrication of SiGe HBT BiCMOS Technology

Fabrication of SiGe HBT BiCMOS Technology
Author: John D. Cressler
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420066897

SiGe HBT BiCMOS technology is the obvious groundbreaker of the Si heterostructures application space. To date virtually every major player in the communications electronics market either has SiGe up and running in-house or is using someone else’s SiGe fab as foundry for their designers. Key to this success lies in successful integration of the SiGe HBT and Si CMOS, with no loss of performance from either device. Filled with contributions from leading experts, Fabrication of SiGe HBT BiCMOS Technologies brings together a complete discussion of these topics into a single resource. Drawn from the comprehensive and well-reviewed Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, this volume examines the design, fabrication, and application of silicon heterostructure transistors. A novel aspect of this book the inclusion of numerous snapshot views of the industrial state-of-the-art for SiGe HBT BiCMOS technology. It has been carefully designed to provide a useful basis of comparison for the current status and future course of the global industry. In addition to the copious technical material and the numerous references contained in each chapter, the book includes easy-to-reference appendices on the properties of Si and Ge, the generalized Moll-Ross relations, integral charge-control relations, and sample SiGe HBT compact model parameters.

Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications

Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications
Author: Asad A. Abidi
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1999
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Electrical Engineering Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications High-frequency integrated circuit design is a booming area of growth that is driven not only by the expanding capabilities of underlying circuit technologies like CMOS, but also by the dramatic increase in wireless communications products that depend on them. Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications includes seminal and classic papers in the field and is the first all-in-one resource to address this increasingly important topic. Internationally known and highly regarded in the field, editors Asad Abidi, Paul Gray, and Robert G. Meyer have meticulously compiled more than 100 papers and articles covering the very latest high-level integrated circuits techniques and solutions in use today. Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications is devised expressly to provide IC design engineers, system architects, and integrators with a practical understanding of subjects ranging from architecture choices for integrated transceivers to actual circuit designs in all viable IC technologies, such as bipolar, CMOS, and GaAs. The papers selected represent a breadth of coverage and level of expertise that is simply unmatched in the field. Topics covered include: Radio architectures Receivers Transmitters and transceivers Power amplifiers and RF switches Oscillators Passive components Systems applications