EDN

Design considerations for integrated CMOS receivers

To meet the demands for the multi-band, multi-mode wireless standards in the current market, a highly integrated wireless receiver (RX) is desired. CMOS technology has become the technology of choice ...
Electronic Design

Layout-Dependent Modeling Boosts CMOS Gate Density

A layout-dependent circuit-design model from Toshiba helps boost gate density and improve cost-performance in next-generation 45-nm CMOS technology. More specifically, 45-nm CMOS gate density can be 2 ...
EDN

Exploration of the design space for integrated Bluetooth CMOS RFICs

In order to give some perspective to the design problem for a Bluetooth receiver, it is useful to examine the performance required to meet two well-understood specifications: sensitivity and ...
Design-Reuse

Mixed-signal design flow enables RF CMOS chip

Spirea AB is a Swedish fabless semiconductor company developing highly integrated low-power, low-cost radio solutions for the Wireless LAN and PAN markets. This article describes how we assembled a ...
Nature

Terahertz Technology and CMOS Circuit Design

Recent advances in terahertz technology are significantly expanding the horizon of high-speed, high-frequency electronic and photonic systems. Positioned between microwave electronics and infrared ...
Nature

Low Power Design in CMOS and FinFET Logic Circuits

Low power design has become a cornerstone of modern integrated circuit development, driven by energy efficiency demands and the challenges of scaling in nanometre technologies. Innovations in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Parametric Analysis, Design Guidelines for mm-Wave nm CMOS Transmission Lines

Transmission lines such as coplanar waveguides, shielded coplanar waveguides and CPW with ground can be analyzed by their geometry and electrical properties, using experimental and simulated data.
Design-Reuse

System on Chip (SoC) for Short Range Wireless - CMOS versus SIGe

The issue of integration is driven by both advances in technology and changes to the market space. In many cases the business changes help drive uses of the technical improvements, so we begin by ...