Impedance Optimization Of Linearizer To Suppress Intermodulation Distortion In 2.45 GHz SiGe WLAN Power Amplifier
White Papers The authors have designed a linear SiGe bipolar power amplifier with an on-chip varactor diode linearizer. This linearizer effectively improves the nonlinearity of the RF Power Amplifier (PA). The power amplifier exhibits P1dB of 24 dBm, with a PAE...
[June 21, 2006, 0:00]
IBM Hits A Chip Milestone
News Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and reduce the power consumption of chips that go into mobile phones and other wireless devices. The 100 millionth SiGe chip was manufactured at IBM's Burlington plant in Vermont and...
[May 22, 2002, 7:32]
US Report: IBM Could Put Phones In Almost Anything
News Monday, the company unveiled improvements in the manufacturing of integrated chips using a material known as silicon germanium, or SiGe. That means the SiGe chips can run faster and use less power than those used in most mobile applications today.
[October 13, 1998, 10:23]
Full Speed Ahead For IBM Transistor
News The 350GHz transistor uses SiGe, but with a twist. The new transistor design, based on its silicon germanium, or SiGe, chipmaking technology, delivers a threefold increase in speed. Resulting SiGe chips are otherwise the same as standard silicon...
[November 4, 2002, 10:30]
Chip Breaks Speed Record In Deep Freeze
News The experiment is part of a project to explore the ultimate speed limits of silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips. SiGe chips are similar to standard silicon chips, but they also contain germanium for better performance and lower power consumption.
[June 20, 2006, 9:15]
IBM Gives Silicon Germanium Chips A Speed Boost
News Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and reduce the power consumption of chips that go into cellular phones and other wireless devices. Though SiGe chips lead to high performance, the technology is more expensive than plain...
[August 5, 2005, 10:30]
A Fully Integrated Zero-IF Transceiver For GSM-GPRS Quad-Band Application
White Papers The design was done in a BICMOS SIGE 0.35- m technology and the die area is 14 mm. A fully integrated GSM/GPRS quad-band transceiver is presented. It includes the receiver, the transmitter, the synthesizer, all necessary voltage-controlled...
[July 25, 2007, 0:00]
Motorola: New Chip Will Bring GPS To All
News Silicon germanium, or SiGe, technology can boost performance and reduce the power consumption of chips that go into cellular phones and other wireless devices. Motorola is unveiling a global positioning system chip it says is the first GPS...
[September 24, 2002, 8:11]
News Burst: IBM And RF To Help Build Diddy Phones
News The two firms plan to work together to develop radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on IBM's silicon germanium (SiGe) technology. The project is expected to reduce the number of chips required in upcoming wireless handsets which would...
[October 15, 1999, 10:29]
IBM And RF To Build Diddy Phones?
News The two firms plan to work together to develop radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on IBM's silicon germanium (SiGe) technology. A collaboration between computing giant IBM and silicon developer RF Micro Devices could result in a...
[October 15, 1999, 15:03]
New Chipset Promises Gigabit Broadband On Cable And Wireless
News Built around specialist company Jazz Semiconductor's silicon-germanium (SiGe) 150GHz, 180nm process, the chip will be low power yet offer higher performance than the current specifications for UWB require, Pulse~LINK says.
[May 11, 2004, 15:20]
