EDN

A Designer’s Guide to CMOS RF Models

In recent years we have begun to see references to “RF” CMOS processes and to “RF” models for those processes. This article will explore what the real meanings of such “RF” designations are, and what ...
Design-Reuse

An Innovative RF CMOS IP Using a 10 GHz VCO for Direct Conversion WLAN

If the Wireless LAN market is still growing, Wireless LAN solutions are already in a cost reduction phase. Conceiving WLAN solutions nowadays requires a high-level approach where the final chipset may ...
EDN

Analog and RF CMOS Technology

The Fujitsu’s Analog and RF CMOS technology comes with 90 nm and 65 nm low leakage processes. It has a full low-K and ultra-low-K inter metal dielectric. It comes with a thick metal inductor as well ...
Electronics Weekly

RF CMOS at 65nm will impact mobile design

Foundry services for a 65nm RF CMOS process is being offered by UMC. Targeted at next generation wireless system-on-chip (SoC) applications including WiFi, WiMax, wireless USB, and cellular, the RF ...
Electronics Weekly

Reconfigurable CMOS RF chip outperforms both GaAs and ET

Peregrine Semiconductor has introduced its first reconfigurable RF front end for 4G LTE wireless platform developments for global markets. “To support over 40 frequency bands and a more than ...
Semiconductor Engineering

RF SOI Wars Begin

Several foundries are expanding their fab capacities for RF SOI processes amid huge demand and shortages of this technology for smartphones. A number of foundries are increasing their 200mm RF SOI fab ...
Design-Reuse

RF CMOS challenges in SoC Implementation

Designers creating the analog/RF portion of system-on-chip designs need considerable additional support from the foundry. Take one simple component, the inductor, to illustrate the depth of these ...
Business Wire

Carbon Nanotube Technology Exceeds 100GHz for First Time in RF Applications

CULVER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbonics, Inc. today announced that carbon nanotube technology has for the first time achieved speeds exceeding 100GHz in-radio frequency (RF) applications. The ...
Nature

CMOS Mixers and Low-Power RF Circuit Design

CMOS mixers are integral components in modern radio frequency (RF) circuit design, enabling frequency conversion in wireless systems while prioritising low power consumption. Recent progress in ...
Hackaday

How Shrinking Feature Size Made Modern Wireless Work

If you’re living your life right, you probably know what as MOSFET is. But do you know the MESFET? They are like the faster, uninsulated, Schottky version of a MOSFET, and they used to rule the roost ...
Nature

Active Inductors in CMOS RF Circuit Design

Active inductors have emerged as a transformative component in CMOS radio frequency (RF) circuit design, effectively replacing traditional passive inductors with active semiconductor networks. By ...
Semiconductor Engineering

New Foundry Gold Rush: RF SOI

About every five years or so, a new and hot market emerges in the specialty foundry business that resembles a frenetic gold rush. The last big gold rush occurred around 2008, when more than a dozen ...