2011 International Solid-State Circuits Conference Short Course

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OF

RF TRANSCEIVERS

This lecture offers a system-level analysis of advanced RF transceivers for wireless and mobile applications. An overview of RF standards is then presented, followed by a detailed discussion of various radio transceiver architectures. Key radio requirements are derived and translated to their corresponding circuit specifications, giving an overview of a practical top-down radio design. Several non-idealities and limitations of RF-CMOS are discussed, and architectural and calibration techniques that overcome these limitations are described. Finally, advanced topics such as handset calibration, the evolution to broadband, RF diversity, and next generation mobile standards and their requirements are presented. Instructor: Hooman Darabi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1972. He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999. He is currently a senior technical director with Broadcom, Irvine, CA. His interests include analog and RF IC design for wireless communications. Dr. Darabi holds over 60 issued, and 80 pending patents with Broadcom, and has published over 40 IEEE peer-reviewed and conference papers.