Title :
RF CMOS comes of age
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
All-CMOS radio transceivers and systems-on-a-chip are rapidly making inroads into 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 :
integrated circuits; nonradiative dielectric waveguides; SICs; SINRD circuit; air holes; dielectric substrate; dispersion analysis; dispersion design; nonradiative dielectric waveguide circuits; planar circuit; substrate integrated nonradiative dielectric waveguide; Assembly; Circuits; Educational institutions; Filters; Industrial training; Microelectronics; Radio frequency; Receivers; Technological innovation; Telephone sets;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JSSC.2004.825247
