Title :
RF CMOS comes of age
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
All-CMOS radio transceivers and systems-on-a-chip are rapidly making inroads on a wireless market that for years was dominated by bipolar and BiCMOS solutions. It is not a matter of replacing bipolar transistors in known circuit topologies with FETs; the wave of RF CMOS brings with it new architectures and unprecedented levels of integration. What are its origins? What is the commercial impact? How will RF CMOS evolve in the future? This paper offers a retrospective and a perspective.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; radiofrequency integrated circuits; system-on-chip; transceivers; wireless LAN; BiCMOS solution; CMOS radio transceivers; FET; RF CMOS; bipolar transistors; circuit topology; commercial impact; integration; systems-on-a-chip; wireless market; Assembly; Circuit topology; Inductors; Industrial training; Microelectronics; Radio frequency; Spirals; Switched capacitor circuits; Switching circuits; Telephone sets;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Circuits, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. 2003 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto, Japan
Print_ISBN :
4-89114-034-8
DOI :
10.1109/VLSIC.2003.1221176
