EDN

Deep-submicron CMOS aids RF design

While shrinking CMOS lithographies pose many difficult challenges for analog circuits, including shrinking supply voltages and increasing leakage currents, they also offer some fundamental advantages ...
Electronics Weekly

Designing RF for 3G in CMOS

Bluetooth was the proving ground for implementing multi-gigahertz RF transceiver circuits on a cost-effective CMOS process. The success of CMOS RF advocate CSR from Cambridge is testament to that. Yet ...
Design-Reuse

CMOS RF SoC design shoots for 60 GHz

We will describe a potential design of a radio-frequency system-on-chip that is backward-compatible with a 60- and 5-GHz wireless local- (or personal)-area network system. The SoC can support a ...
Electronics Weekly

RF chip makers backing CMOS for front-ends

It is predicted that two fifths of mobile phone RF transceivers will be made using CMOS technology by 2009, so there is little surprise that semiconductor firms have started to put a big design effect ...
EDN

RF CMOS SoCs welcome Wi-Fi sensing standard 802.11bf

In 2024, the IEEE will unveil a new Wi-Fi standard—802.11bf—with specifications that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of collecting data about people and objects by calculating how they ...
Design-Reuse

An Innovative RF CMOS IP Using a 10 GHz VCO for Direct Conversion WLAN

If the Wireless LAN market is still growing, Wireless LAN solutions are already in a cost reduction phase. Conceiving WLAN solutions nowadays requires a high-level approach where the final chipset may ...
Business Wire

RFaxis Unveils a New Family of CMOS RF Front-End ICs for Internet of Things (IoT)

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RFaxis, Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company focused on developing innovative, next-generation RF solutions for the wireless connectivity market, today ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Modeling High-Performance Analog And RF Circuits In Nanometer-Scale CMOS

Today’s consumer, communication, and computer electronic devices have clocks, communication interfaces, and high-speed signal-conditioning circuits that operate at radio frequencies (RF). Providing ...
Yahoo Finance

Tower Semiconductor Announces a New RF Switch Technology with Breakthrough Performance

MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, August 03, 2020 –Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leader in high-value analog semiconductor foundry solutions, today announces a new radio frequency (RF) switch ...
Digi Times

RF CMOS to help drive down handset ASPs, says iSuppli

CMOS process technology is enjoying increasing use in handset-use radio frequency (RF) transceiver chips, according to iSuppli, and the research firm believes CMOS RF transceivers will be employed in ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CMOS And SOI Invade RF Front End

The next-generation 4G wireless standard known as long-term evolution (LTE) presents some new and difficult design choices for OEMs. One of the more difficult choices involves the less glamorous, but ...
JSTOR Daily

Beyond CMOS: heterogeneous integration of III–V devices, RF MEMS and other dissimilar materials/devices with Si CMOS to create intelligent microsystems

Advances in silicon technology continue to revolutionize micro-/nano-electronics. However, Si cannot do everything, and devices/components based on other materials systems are required. What is the ...