rfic
RFIC is an abbreviation of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit
CMOS RFIC architectures for IEEE 802.15. 4 networks
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ABSTRACT While the wireless industry has been focusing on increasing high data throughput, the emerging IEEE 802.15. 4 (ZigBee) protocol targets a set of applications that require simple wireless connectivity, relaxed throughput, very low power consumption, and
Multiband public safety radio using a multiband RFIC with an RF multiplexer-based antenna interface
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Multiband Public Safety Radio using a MultibandRFIC with an RF Multiplexer-based Antenna InterfaceCombine Many Radios into One* At least 13 bands relevant to Public Safety x Many channels per band = A lot of radios! (*Above figure is just a functional description.)Low
Design and Development of an Evaluation Board with RFIC Ver. 4
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An experimental multi-band/multi-mode radio for public safety applications is being developed in Virginia Tech under a project sponsored by the US Department of Justice. The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate a single radio which can operate in all
Robust and efficient uncertainty quantification and validation of RFIC isolation
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Abstract. Modern communication and identification products impose demanding constraints on reliability of components. Due to this, statistical constraints more and more enter optimization formulations of electronic products. Yield constraints often require efficient
Ignoring the obvious: Possibilities for on-chip linearisation of rfic power amplifiers
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The requirements of multi-carrier PA (MCPA) basestations in the worldwide mobile phone system has caused a major re-invention of PA linearisation techniques over the last decade. The multicarrier signal environment and the accompanying regulatory emission requirements impose a very
Matching RFIC Wireless Transmitters to Small Loop Antennas
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Most short-range RF transmitters use a small loop antenna for radiation of the signal. This article provides a review of the impedance characteris- tics of these antennas and describes methods of matching the output of the transmitter to the very low impedance of the loop antenna, with adequate
Black-box modeling of RFIC amplifiers for linear and non-linear simulations
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Behavioral modeling of RFIC amplifiers is pre-sented, based on a novel approach that fits complex impedance dependent data for power compression, and Third Order Intercept (TOI) performance. An example, implemented in Agilent ADS, is shown for a commercially
Robust optimization of an RFIC isolation problem under uncertainties
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Abstract Modern electronics systems involved in communication and identification impose demanding constraints on both reliability and robustness of components. On the one hand, it results from the influence of manufacturing tolerances within the continuous down-scaling
Linearity Performance Assessment of Nanoscale Gate Material Engineered Trapezoidal Recessed Channel (GME-TRC) MOSFET for RFIC design and Wireless
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ABSTRACT In this work, an extended study of linearity behaviour of proposed Gate Material Engineered-Trapezoidal Recessed Channel (GME-TRC) MOSFET has been performed using ATLAS and DEVEDIT device simulators and the results so obtained are compared
Co-design of full-duplex rfic and resource allocation algorithms
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Full-duplex (FD) wireless–simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency– is an emerging wireless duplexing scheme that has the potential to significantly improve wireless network performance [1-2]. However, the biggest challenge associated with FD
Development of a Lead Free Solder Bumped RFIC Switch Process
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ABSTRACT As the RF front-end module market aggressively strives to reduce both size and cost of their assemblies, the consumer demands ever-increasing levels of functionality. To accommodate this front-end module makers are looking to more advanced packaging
Expanding RFIC Horizons [From the Guest Editors Desk]
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The radio frequency inte- grated circuit ( RFIC ) engi- neer has the opportunity to expand its horizons in many directions as this special issue on RFICs highlights. Following the rapid growth of wireless commu- nications since the 1990s, RFICs have long been used for applica- tions in traditional
Design of 60-GHz millimeter-wave CMOS RFICon-chip CPW-fed slot antenna
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Recently, there exists an increasing demand for broadband multimedia applications for an everincreasing capacity of wireless networks. In particular, for dense local communications, the 60-GHz band for wireless personal area network (WPAN) applications is of special
Revision of the RFIC Board for NIJ Public Safety Radio
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In, we presented the design and development of an evaluation board with RFICVersion 4 . This board was developed under multi-band/multi-mode radio (MMR) project in Virginia Tech sponsored by the US Department of Justice. A prototype radio was built using this
Fundamentals of RFIC Package Characterization
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The design cycle of an RFIC is well-known. Built from a database of elements, the RFIC or MMIC seeks a response that will meet the customerneeds. To understand how the design will hold up over IC process variances, stability and sensitivity analyses are performed until