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Experimental Assessment of Tradeoffs Among Spectrum Sensing Platforms

Experimental Assessment of Tradeoffs Among Spectrum Sensing Platforms

...research: a sensing engine developed at imec and built around a prototype RFIC; the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) with the Iris Software Defined Radio... Read more

19 September, 2011
GPS and Galileo : Dual RF Front-end receiver and Design, Fabrication, & Test by Jaizki Mendizabal Samper 3.0.3

GPS and Galileo : Dual RF Front-end receiver and Design, Fabrication, & Test by Jaizki Mendizabal Samper 3.0.3

...specifications of an interoperable dual GPS/Galileo RF front-end Design all RFIC blocks, including the receiver chain, PLL, control logic, and PADs Select the... Read more

9 July, 2010

News Burst: IBM and RF to help build diddy phones

A collaboration between computing giant IBM and silicon developer RF Micro Devices could result in a tinier, more powerful generation of mobile phones, the companies said yesterday. Read more

15 October, 1999 by Dave Wilby
A SiGe PA With Dual Dynamic Bias Control and Memoryless Digital Predistortion for WCDMA Handset Applications

A SiGe PA With Dual Dynamic Bias Control and Memoryless Digital Predistortion for WCDMA Handset Applications

This paper demonstrates a two-stage 1.95-GHz WCDMA handset RFIC Power Amplifier (PA) implemented in a 0.25- m SiGe BiCMOS process... Read more

1 May, 2006
Design and Characterization of a 5.2 GHz/2.4 GHz ΣÎ

Design and Characterization of a 5.2 GHz/2.4 GHz ΣÎ" Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer for Low-Phase Noise Performance

...is one of the most challenging areas in Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) design. It requires diverse knowledge of both high-speed analog and digital... Read more

13 January, 2006
The PSP Model in RF CMOS Design

The PSP Model in RF CMOS Design

...is rightly hailed as an excellent alternative to traditional BSIM models for RFIC design, RF designers need to be aware of how PSP models relate... Read more

1 March, 2009
A Low Power Baseband Chain for CMMB Application

A Low Power Baseband Chain for CMMB Application

...0.35um SiGe BiCMOS process. It is the first baseband of CMMB RFIC reported so far. A 8th-order chebyshev Low Pass Filter (LPF) with... Read more

15 November, 2008
Analysis of RF Flip-Chip On-Chip Inductance With Novel Measurement Technology

Analysis of RF Flip-Chip On-Chip Inductance With Novel Measurement Technology

...integration with baseband circuits makes silicon the process of choice in many RFIC applications. However, silicon-based Integrated Circuit (IC) technologies have not been widely... Read more

5 January, 2006
RF / Microwave IC Designer - RF, Microwave IC's, Cambridge, to £50k

RF / Microwave IC Designer - RF, Microwave IC's, Cambridge, to £50k

...expected to design in a range of technologies including: GaAs MMIC Si RFIC Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs) SMT based design at RF & microwave frequencies to... Read more

4 May, 2012

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