Integrated circuit technology options for RFICs-present status andfuture directions |
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| Authors: | Larson LE |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA; |
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| Abstract: | This paper will summarize the technology tradeoffs that are involved in the implementation of radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communications. Radio transceiver circuits have a very broad range of requirements-including noise figure, linearity, gain, phase noise, and power dissipation. The advantages and disadvantages of each of the competing technologies-Si CMOS and bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), Si/SiGe HBTs and GaAs MESFETs, PHEMTS and HBTs will be examined in light of these requirements |
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