[CPCC] TALK: Integrated Circuits for UWB Radio 11/15/06 11 AM

Ender Ayanoglu ayanoglu at uci.edu
Thu Nov 9 10:44:11 PST 2006


				TALK

			Integrated Circuits for
		       Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radio

				 by

			     A. Safarian

			   November 15, 2006
				11:00 AM
			    Calit2 Room 4355

				ABSTRACT

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, while enabling gigabit/sec short-range
communication, demands a wideband RF front-end that should retain required
gain, noise figure (NF), and linearity across a wide range of frequencies
(e.g., 3.1-10.6GHz). Despite amenability to system-on-chip integration,
designing silicon-based RF front-ends for UWB wireless systems is indeed
very challenging. This Ph.D. research presents novel circuit architectures
for RF front-ends of UWB transceivers in submicron CMOS technologies.
Starting with the CMOS distributed UWB mixer, the use of distributed
architecture will be uniquely extended to new territories such as the
distributed RF front-end for the UWB IF and direct conversion receivers
and the distributed active power combiner/splitter for multi-antenna UWB
transceivers.

This is a Ph.D defense presentation. The thesis advisor is Prof. P.
Heydari.


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