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## IC DESIGN INSIGHTS
T his book contains a selection of tutorial and invited presentations that were given at the IEEE CICC 2017 in Austin, TX. The selection of the talks was made to provide a comprehensive coverage of key topics, including Circuits Techniques for mm-wave front-ends, RF and mm-wave receivers and frequency synthesis, data and DC-DC converters, and techniques for IoT security. The book is part of an educational initiative of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society to offer its members state of the art educational material.
We would like to express our thanks to the organizer of the CICC 2017 tutorials sessions and invited talks, Prof. Ramesh Harjani of the University of Minnesota for his help in identifying the topics and speakers. Also, we like to thank the many world-experts for contributing to this book and sharing their expertise and insight with the readers.
The book is organized into five parts. Part I, which include three chapters (Chapters 1-3), deals with millimeter-wave (mm-wave) transmitter circuits including mm-wave front-end circuits. Prof. Hossein Hashemi (Univ. of S. California) explains the design of mm-wave power amplifiers in the first chapter of this book. Chapter 2, presented by Dr. Tolga Dinc (Texas Instruments) and Prof. Harish Krishnaswamy (Columbia Univ.) describes the details of millimeter-wave full-duplex wireless systems. The final chapter of this part is presented by Prof. John Long (Univ. of Waterloo) where he explains the design of on-chip transformers and their applications to RF and mm-wave front-ends.
Part II of this book presents four chapters (Chapters 4-7) on RF and mm-wave receiver circuits and frequency synthesis. Dr. Amr Fahim (Inphi Corporation) describes the requirements, design and optimizations of local Oscillator (LO) distribution networks for mm-wave frequencies as well as the applications ranging from mm-wave phase-array to high speed optical communication networks. Prof. Foster Dai (Auburn University) mainly focuses on the techniques breaking the trade-off between the high power and low phase noise by both circuits and architectural innovations for area efficient sub-sampling PLL synthesizer. Chapter 6 is presented by Profs. Eric Klumperink and Bram Nauta (both with the University of Twente) where they review recent developments in the field of N-path filters and mixers on selectivity, linearity, and blocker tolerance for multi-band software defined radio receivers. Chapter 7 is presented by Prof. Hua Wang (Georgia Tech.) who explains the operation principle, as well as pros and cons, of Doherty architecture in low-GHz mixed-signal and mm-wave 5G multi-band analog PAs.
The next part consists of four chapters (Chapters 8-11) on Data Converters. Dr. Hui Pan (Broadcom, US) gives a unified framework of data converters with circuit examples of recent implementations, and a discussion of the recent trends of simple ZX-based quantizers combined with signal processing and digital error corrections. The next tutorial by Dr. Lukas Kull M illimeter-wave frequencies enable applications such as high-speed wireless communications, such as those envisioned in the upcoming 5G standards, highresolution radar, such as those used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and imaging, such as those used in airport 3D scanners. Power amplifiers determine the overall energy consumption and performance of transceivers. Millimeter-wave operation offers unique challenges and opportunities for power amplifiers. This chapter covers a summary of selected design and implementation issues related to mm-wave power amplifiers with case studies. It touches on active and passive devices, different amplifier operation classes, power combining schemes, and transmitter architectures. This chapter can serve as a basic source of information for those interested to study and contribute to mm-wave power amplifiers and transmitters.
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