Silicon-Based RF Front-Ends for Ultra Wideband Radios [Paperback]

A comprehensive study of silicon-based distributed architectures in wideband circuits are presented in this book. Novel circuit architectures for ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technologies are described. The book begins with an introduction of several transceiver architectures for UWB. The discussion then focuses on RF front-end of the UWB radio. Therefore, the book will be of interest to RF circuit designers and students.

Chapter 1 Introduction. 1.1. Organization of the Book Chapter 2 Ultra Wideband Systems. 2.1. Wireless World of Technologies. 2.2. UWB Applications : high speed short range communication, long range localization. 2.3. UWB Signals. 2.4. Advantages of Ultra Wideband over Narrow-band Systems. 2.5. UWB Transceiver Architecture. 2.6. Challenges. 2.7. Link Budget. References. Chapter 3 UWB Distributed Low Noise Amplifiers (DLNA). 3.1. Wideband LNA Matching. 3.2. Background: Distributed Circuits. 3.3. CMOS Performance optimized DLNA. 3.4. Noise Analysis. 3.5. Linearity Analysis. 3.6. Mesurement Results. 3.7. Summary. References. Chapter 4 Distributed RF Front-End. 4.1. UWB Zero/Low IF Dual Conversion Receivers. 4.2. UWB-DRF. 4.3. Experimental Results. 4.4. Summary. References. Chapter 5 Distributed RF Front-End for UWB Direct Conversion Receiver. 5.1. Distributed RF Front-End for Direct Conversion Receiver. 5.2. Current Equalization to Remove IQ Gain/Phase Imbalances. 5.3. Measurement Results. 5.4. Summary. References. Chapter 6 Distributed Active Power Combiners and Splitters for Multi-Antenna UWB Beamforming Transceivers. 6.1. MA-UWB Transceiver Architectures with Beamforming. 6.2. Distributed Power Combiner and Splitter. 6.3. Experimental Results. 6.4. Summary. References. Chapter 7. Conclusions. Index.

Aminghasem Safarian received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, in 2000, 2002, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the lĂ#