Integrated RF Building Blocks for Wireless Communication Transceivers

The wireless communication systems have become animportant part of our lives. The everincreasing demand toward lower cost makes the taskof the wireless communication circuitdesigner more and more challenging. This demandtranslates into the specifications as theneed of designing the circuits with lower powerconsumption, with smaller die area but without anycompromise from the final goal of higherperformance. The circuit design for wirelesstransceiver front-ends hasan additional complexity due to the high frequencyof operation involved. This book includesdiscussions on the fully-integratedVCOs, prescalersand Q-enhanced LC bandpassfilters on silicon within the framework of RFintegrated circuit design forwireless communication transceivers. The advantagesand shortcomings of the circuits are presentedtogether with the associated design trade-offs,based on simplified noise andnonlinearity analyses. Measurement results of thedesigned and implemented LC VCOs, a dual-modulusprescaler and a Q-enhanced LC bandpass filter areprovided. This book will be of interest to analogcircuit designers and researchers in the field of RFIC design.

Autorentext

Fikret Dülger is a design engineer in the RF IC Design Group, Texas Instruments (TI) Inc.. He received a Ph.D. degree in electronics from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, in 2002. Edgar Sánchez-Sinencio is the TI Jack Kilby Chair Professor and Director of the Analog and Mixed-Signal Center at Texas A&M University.

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The wireless communication systems have become an important part of our lives. The ever increasing demand toward lower cost makes the task of the wireless communication circuit designer more and more challenging. This demand translates into the specifications as the need of designing the circuits with lower power consumption, with smaller die area but without any compromise from the final goal of higher performance. The circuit design for wireless transceiver front-ends has an additional complexity due to the high frequency of operation involved. This book includes discussions on the fully-integrated VCOs, prescalers and Q-enhanced LC bandpass filters on silicon within the framework of RF integrated circuit design for wireless communication transceivers. The advantages and shortcomings of the circuits are presented together with the associated design trade-offs, based on simplified noise and nonlinearity analyses. Measurement results of the designed and implemented LC VCOs, a dual-modulus prescaler and a Q-enhanced LC bandpass filter are provided. This book will be of interest to analog circuit designers and researchers in the field of RF IC design.