SHORT COURSE (Short Course Registration)

RF CMOS CIRCUIT DESIGN FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

This Short Course on RF CMOS Circuit Design for Personal Communication Systems requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Course completion provides overall perspective of and detailed introduction to circuit design of wireless transceiver systems including architectural and technology tradeoffs, and specification and design of low-noise amplifiers, voltage-controlled oscillators, fixed and fractional-frequency synthesizers, and mixers. The Course is offered in the four parts described below.

For Registration, please use the ISSCC97 Registration Form on the Advance Program Centerford. Sign in is at San Francisco Marriott Hotel, Level B-2, from 7:00 to 11:00AM on Tuesday, February 4. The Short Course will be offered twice on Tuesday, February 4. The first session is scheduled for 8:00AM to 4:30PM. The second session is scheduled for 10:00AM to 6:30PM.

OUTLINE

ARCHITECTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR CMOS RF TRANSCEIVERS
(8:00AM-9:30AM),(10:00AM-11:30AM)

After an overview technological, circuit-level, and architectural challenges in the implemntation of high-integration CMOS RF Transceivers for single-standard and multi-tandard applications, several architectural approaches to implementation of such devices are discussed and compared.

Instructor: Paul Gray, University of California, Berkeley, CA, received the BS (1963), MS (1965), and PhD (1969) from the Univ. of Arizona. In 1969, he joined Fairchild R&D Labs, and in 1971, the EECS Dept. at UC Berkeley. He is Dean of Engineering at Berkeley. His interests bipolar and MOS circuit design, electro-thermal interactions in ICs, device modeling, telecom circuits, and analog-digital interfaces. He is co-author of a widely-used text on analysis and design of analog ICs and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

DESIGN OF LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS IN SILICON IC TECHNOLOGY
(10:00AM-11:30AM),(12:00PM-1:30PM)

Design of narrowband and broadband low-noise amplifiers in bipolar and MOS echnologies. Topics : noise figure (and what to do about it), device noise models, impedance matching, linearity measures, a survey of topologies, and testing.

Instructor: Thomas Lee, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, holds degrees from MIT. He was at Analog Devices from 1990 to 1992, and at Rambus from 1992 to 1994. Since 1994 he has been on the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford University, researching use of digital CMOS technology for high-performance RF and analog applications.

INTEGRATED CMOS VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED OSCILLATORS AND SYNTHESIZERS
(1:00PM-2:30PM),(3:00PM-4:30PM)

Voltage-controlled oscillator and fractional divider implementations for PLL synthesizers. Low-phase-noise CMOS VCO circuits without external components are compared, and CMOS implementations of fixed dividers and dual-modulus prescalers are analyzed. Dual-modulus prescalers with fractional-N SD techniques for realizing the synthesizer loop.

Instructor: Michiel Steyaert, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, received the PhD in 1987 from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. In 1988 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA. In 1989, he was appointed as an NFWO Senior Research Associate at the Laboratory ESAT, K.U. Leuven, and as Associate Professor since 1990. His current research is in analog integrated circuits for high frequency signal processing and for telecommunication circuits.

MIXERS AND MODULATORS
(3:00PM-4:30PM),(5:00PM-6:30PM)

The mixer is the one requisite nonlinear enabling component in a wireless transceiver. Its design is often only vaguely understood. Following an introduction of conversion gain, noise, and undesired nonlinearity, design of practical CMOS mixers is presented and compared with mixers implemented with other transistor types. The mixer for a receiver is designed quite differently than that for a transmitter.

Instructor: Asad Abidi, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, received the BSc from Imperial College (1976), and MS (1978) and PhD degrees (1981) from UC Berkeley. He was at Bell Labs from 1981 to 1984, and at Hewlett Packard Labs during 1989. Since 1985, he has been at UCLA where he is now Professor. His research interests CMOS RF design, data conversion, and analog signal processing. He received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching, and Best Paper Award at 1995 European Solid-State Circuits Conference.

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