RF IC design challenges

  • Authors:

  • Behzad Razavi

  • Affiliations:

  • Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • DAC '98 Proceedings of the 35th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

This paper describes the challenges in designing RF integrated circuits for wireless transceiver applications. Receiver architectures such as heterodyne, homodyne, and image-reject topologies are presented and two transmitter architectures, namely, one-step and two-step configurations are studied. The design of building blocks such as low-noise amplifiers, mixers, and oscillators is also considered.