Sharing RF intellectual property helps overcome integration challenges in a CDMA handset

Author

Frank, Michael ; Giacometti, Riccardo

Author_Institution

Hewlett Packard Co., USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

774

Abstract

The development of the high frequency portion of wireless communication equipment, such as mobile phones or base stations, is currently articulated in two main areas: the design of the RFICs and their integration with the remaining discrete parts on the Printed Circuit Board (PCB). This paper discusses how the use of encoding techniques for sharing circuit-level RF Intellectual Property (IP) allows a much tighter interaction between the RFIC vendor and the manufacturer of the wireless communication system, and allows early integration of the RFIC. A real life example of the combined application of encoded TP and state-of-the-art RF simulation to the integration of an RFIC in an IS-95 handset is presented

Keywords

UHF integrated circuits; cellular radio; code division multiple access; encoding; industrial property; integrated circuit design; telephone sets; transceivers; CDMA handset; IS-95 handset; RF intellectual property sharing; RF simulation; RFIC design; circuit-level RF; encoding techniques; intellectual property protection; mobile phones; wireless communication equipment; Base stations; Encoding; Integrated circuit manufacture; Intellectual property; Mobile handsets; Printed circuits; Pulp manufacturing; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 1999 Asia Pacific

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5761-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.1999.833707

Filename

833707