SAW-Less Digitally-Assisted Receivers

Today’s wireless devices, like our smartphones, are able to handle multiple standards and bands for different applications, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and data-voice communications. However, the cost of a modern transceiver is becoming mainly dominated by the large number of off-chip passive components, like Duplexers and SAW filters, needed to distinguish the desired signal among many interferences. Addressing the challenges that arise from the lack of RF filtering, a SAW-less architecture represents an interesting solution to reduce the platform complexity. This thesis proposes a feasible solution based on a SAW-less RF front-end able to meet the standard requirements and a digital system tailored to the RF path. The digital architecture, which represents the main topic of this thesis, is described in detail and experimentally tested to validate the proposed solutions

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems on Chip 2010 - ReCoSoC\u2710 - May 17-19, 2010 Karlsruhe, Germany. (KIT Scientific Reports ; 7551)

ReCoSoC is intended to be a periodic annual meeting to expose and discuss gathered expertise as well as state of the art research around SoC related topics through plenary invited papers and posters. The workshop aims to provide a prospective view of tomorrow\u27s challenges in the multibillion transistor era, taking into account the emerging techniques and architectures exploring the synergy between flexible on-chip communication and system reconfigurability