Design of Modern Integrated Transceivers

Instructor: Prof. Pietro Andreani

Affiliation: Center for Physical Electronics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby

Duration: 16 hours

Period: May 8 - May 12, 2006

Place: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione: Elettronica, Informatica, Telecomunicazioni, via G. Caruso, meeting room, ground floor

Credits: 4

Final test: yes

Contacts: Prof. Giuseppe Iannaccone

Aims

The goal of this series of lectures is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in the design of integrated radio transceivers. The most popular architectures for single-chip and multi-standard implementations will be discussed in detail; the main functional blocks (e.g., low-noise-amplifiers (LNAs), mixers, voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), phase-locked loops (PLLs), etc) will be analyzed as well. In particular, recent advances in the design of e.g. low-voltage receiver front-ends, low phase-noise VCOs, and all-digital PLLs will be examined at some length. The main focus will be on radio ICs realized in modern deep-sub-micron CMOS processes.

Syllabus

• Introduction to modern integrated transceivers (3 hours)
• Polyphase filters (1 hour)
• Quadrature signal processing (1 hour)
• Quadrature signal generation (1 hour)
• A linear-time-variant theory of phase noise (1 hour)
• Low-phase-noise oscillators (2 hours)
• Low-phase-error oscillators (1 hour)
• Advanced LNAs and mixers (2 hours)
• All-digital PLLs (2 hours)
• Simulation issues (2 hours)