Session 25 overview: Wireless connectivity

Portable devices of the future are required to integrate an ever-increasing number of wireless functions in a constantly shrinking area and with continually decreasing power consumption budgets. In order to accommodate this goal, wireless communication platforms will be required to support multiple functionalities as well as multiple standards for each function. While advanced CMOS processes allow for higher levels of integration by providing significant area scaling to digital circuits, they impose certain challenges on the radio design. Innovations at the circuit level as well as radio architecture are needed to address these challenges.