Charge-based CMOS Digital RF Transmitters [Paperback]

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.

Introduction.- Incremental-charge-based Operation.- Capacitive Charge-based Transmitter.- Resistive Charge-based Transmitter.- Conclusion.

Pedro Emiliano Paro Filho received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He joined IDEA Electronic Systems as a design engineer in 2009, working on (de)modulators for the ISDB-T standard. In 2010, he was an intern in the wireless team at IMEC, Belgium, and since 2012 he is working towards the Ph.D. degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, also in collaboration with IMEC. His research interests are analog /RF circuit design for Software-Defined Radio (SDR), focusing on digital-intensive transmitter architectures for multi-standard radios, in CMOS.

Jan Craninckx (M98SM07) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in microelectronics summa cum laude from the ESAT-MICAS Laboratories of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. His Ph.D. work was on the design of low-phase noise CMOS integrated VCOs and synthesizers. From 1997 until 2002, he worked with Alcatel Microelectronics (later part of STMicroelectronics) as al“+