This book introduces a completely novel architecture that can relax the
trade-off existing today between noise, power and area consumption in a
very suitable solution for advanced wireless communication systems.
Through the combination of charge-domain operation with incremental
signaling, this architecture gives the best of both worlds, providing
the reduced area and high portability of digital-intensive architectures
with an improved out-of-band noise performance given by intrinsic noise
filtering capabilities. Readers will be enabled to design higher
performance radio front-ends that consume less power and area,
especially with respect to the transmitter and power amplifier designs,
considered by many the "battery killers" on most mobile devices.