This book discusses a number of challenges faced by designers of
wireless receivers, given complications caused by the shrinking of
electronic and mobile devices circuitry into ever-smaller sizes and the
resulting complications on the manufacturability, production yield, and
the end price of the products. The authors describe the impact of
process technology on the performance of the end product and equip RF
designers with countermeasures to cope with such problems. The
mechanisms by which these problems arise are analyzed in detail and
novel solutions are provided, including design guidelines for receivers
with robustness to process variations and details of circuit blocks that
obtain the required performance level.
- Describes RF receiver frontends and their building blocks from a
system- and circuit-level perspective;
- Provides system-level analysis of a generic RF receiver frontend with
robustness to process variations;
- Includes details of CMOS circuit design at 60GHz and reconfigurable
circuits at 60GHz;
- Covers millimeter-wave circuit design with robustness to process
variations.