Gadgets Gab at 60 Ghz

  • Authors:
  • B. Razavi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

People not only talk on the airwaves, they increasingly expect their gadgets to do the same. The trend began in the late 1990s with Bluetooth, which provided 1 megabit of data per second. Then Wi-Fi and the IEEE 802.11 standard pushed the rate to 100 Mb/s. Now ultrawideband systems are going five times as fast as that.