Download or read book Realization of Radio Frequency Digital to Analog Converters in Gallium Nitride Technology for 5G Mobile Communication written by Markus Weiß and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies on Selected Topics in Radio Frequency Digital to Analog Converters written by Mohammad Reza Sadeghifar and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The network latency in fifth generation mobile technology (5G) will be around one millisecond which is much lower than in 4G technology. This significantly faster response time together with higher information capacity and ultra-reliable communication in 5G technology will pave the way for future innovations in a smart and connected society. This new 5G network should be built on a reasonable wireless infrastructure and 5G radio base-stations that can be vastly deployed. That is, while the electrical specification of a radio base-station in 5G should be met in order to have the network functioning, the size, weight and power consumption of the radio system should be optimized to be able to commercially deploy these radios in a huge network. As the number of antenna elements increases in massive multiple-input multiple-output based radios such as in 5G, designing true multi-band base-station radios, with efficient physical size, power consumption and cost in emerging cellular bands especially in mid-bands (frequencies up to 10~GHz), is becoming a challenge. This demands a hard integration of radio components; particularly the radio's digital application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) with high-performance energy-efficient multi-band data converters. In this dissertation radio frequency digital-to-analog converter (RF DAC) and semi-digital finite-impulse response (FIR) filter digital-to-analog converter has been studied. Different techniques are used in these structures to improve the transmitter's overall performance. In the RF DAC part, a radio frequency digital-to-analog converter solution is presented, which is capable of monolithic integration into today's digital ASIC due to its digital-in-nature architecture, while fulfills the stringent requirements of cellular network radio base station linearity and bandwidth. A voltage-mode conversion method is used as output stage, and configurable mixing logic is employed in the data path to create a higher frequency lobe and utilize the output signal in the first or the second Nyquist zone and hence achieving output frequencies up to the sample rate. In the semi-digital FIR part, optimization problem formulation for semi-digital FIR digital-to-analog converter is investigated. Magnitude and energy metrics with variable coefficient precision are defined for cascaded digital Sigma-Delta modulators, semi-digital FIR filter, and Sinc roll-off frequency response of the DAC. A set of analog metrics as hardware cost is also defined to be included in semi-digital FIR DAC optimization problem formulation. It is shown that hardware cost of the semi-digital FIR DAC, can be reduced by introducing flexible coefficient precision in filter optimization while the semi-digital FIR DAC is not over-designed either. Different use cases are selected to demonstrate the optimization problem formulations. A combination of magnitude metric, energy metric, coefficient precision and analog metric are used in different use cases of the optimization problem formulation and solved to find out the optimum set of analog FIR taps. Moreover, a direct digital-to-RF converter (DRFC) is presented in this thesis where a semi-digital FIR topology utilizes voltage-mode RF DAC cells to synthesize spectrally clean signals at RF frequencies. Due to its digital-in-nature design, the DRFC benefits from technology scaling and can be monolithically integrated into advance digital VLSI systems. A fourth-order single-bit quantizer bandpass digital Sigma-Delta modulator is used preceding the DRFC, resulting in a high in-band signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The out-of-band spectrally-shaped quantization noise is attenuated by an embedded semi-digital FIR filter. The RF output frequencies are synthesized by a configurable voltage-mode RF DAC solution with a high linearity performance. A compensation technique to cancel the code-dependent supply current variation in voltage-mode RF DAC for radio frequency direct digital frequency synthesizer is also presented in this dissertation and is studied analytically. The voltage-mode RF DAC and the compensation technique are mathematically modeled and system-level simulation is performed to support the analytical discussion.
Download or read book Radio Frequency Digital to Analog Converters written by Morteza S Alavi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the proliferation of wireless networks, there is a need for more compact, low-cost, power efficient transmitters that are capable of supporting the various communication standards, including Bluetooth, WLAN, GSM/EDGE, WCDMA and 4G of 3GPP cellular. This book describes a novel idea of RF digital-to-analog converters (RFDAC) and demonstrates how they can realize all-digital, fully-integrated RF transmitters that support all the current multi-mode and multi-band communication standards. With this book the reader will: Understand the challenges of realizing a universal CMOS RF transmitter Recognize the design issues and the advantages and disadvantages related to analog and digital transmitter architectures Master designing an RF transmitter from system level modeling techniques down to circuit designs and their related layout know-hows Grasp digital polar and I/Q calibration techniques as well as the digital predistortion approaches Learn how to generate appropriate digital I/Q baseband signals in order to apply them to the test chip and measure the RF-DAC performance. Highlights the benefits and implementation challenges of software-defined transmitters using CMOS technology Includes various types of analog and digital RF transmitter architectures for wireless applications Presents an all-digital polar RFDAC transmitter architecture and describes in detail its implementation Presents a new all-digital I/Q RFDAC transmitter architecture and its implementation Provides comprehensive design techniques from system level to circuit level Introduces several digital predistortion techniques which can be used in RF transmitters Describes the entire flow of system modeling, circuit simulation, layout techniques and the measurement process
Download or read book Technologies Enabling Future Mobile Connectivity and Sensing written by Björn Debaillie and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the latest research results in RF and digital SOI technology development for 5G and 6G, device and substrate characterization, packaging technology, and the realization of full systems including power amplifiers, linearization techniques, beamforming transceivers, access points, and radar detection. In today0́9s connected world, the demand for mobile communications and instant access to information, anytime and anywhere, has drastically changed the electronics landscape, both consumer and industrial. Novel 5G and 6G systems will enable connectivity in all forms between humans, devices, machines, and any objects. They will provide virtually ubiquitous, ultra-high bandwidth and low latency network access to individual users, as well as to all objects benefiting from being connected. They will be the 0́−eyes and ears0́+ of Artificial Intelligence systems as it will provide real-time data collection and analysis. Such diversity calls for a new paradigm in terms of flexibility, not only related to performance, but also in terms of scalability and cost. 5G and 6G communication systems imply a major stake of sovereignty and autonomy for the communication sector and digital infrastructures of the future. All products related to IoT, traffic, and health care, supported by connectivity will benefit the citizens in their daily lives to improve everything from business to private affairs. Together, this will influence society as much as smart phones did in the recent past. It is all about communication and connectivity. This book provides an overview of the latest research results in this field. It is based on the close collaboration in the BEYOND5 project, extended with vision and roadmap insights by European experts leading the 6G development. The BEYOND5 project has built a completely European supply chain for Radio-Frequency Electronics, enabling new RF domains for sensing, communication, 5G radio infrastructure and beyond. Moving forward into higher frequency bands above 100 GHz for 6G, also more disruptive technologies, using heterogeneous integration of CMOS, SOI, and III/V components such as GaN or InP, and advanced packaging techniques will be necessary to realize the objectives of ubiquitous, ultra-high bandwidth and low latency networks. The book bundles the scientific content of the International Workshop on 0́−Technologies enabling future mobile connectivity & sensing0́+ in Lisbon, Portugal 10 September 2023, as part of the ESSCIRC/ESSDERC 2023 European Solid-state Circuits and Devices Conference. Through articles and abstracts, a combined view of experts and practitioners representing academia, research, and industry in the field of wireless communication systems is given. They cover the topics of RF and digital SOI technology development for 5 and 6G, device and substrate characterization, packaging technology, and the realization of full systems including power amplifiers, linearization techniques, beamforming transceivers, access points, and radar detection.
Download or read book Radio Frequency Digital to Analog Converter written by Susan Luschas and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic performance of high speed, high resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) is limited by distortion at the data switching instants. Inter-symbol interference (ISI), imperfect timing synchronization and clock jitter are all culprits. A DAC output current controlled by an oscillating waveform is proposed to mitigate the effects of the switching distortion. The oscillating waveform should be a multiple (k*fs) of the sampling frequency (f), where k>l. The waveforms can be aligned so that the data switching occurs in the zero regions of the oscillating output. This makes the DAC insensitive to switch dynamics and jitter. The architecture has the additional benefit of mixing the DAC impulse response energy to a higher frequency. An image of a low IF input signal can therefore be output directly at a high IF or RF frequency for transmit communications applications. A narrow-band sigma-delta DAC with eight unit elements is chosen to demonstrate the radio frequency digital-to-analog converter (RF DAC) concept. A sigma-delta architecture allows the current source transistors to be smaller since mismatch shaping is employed. Smaller current source transistors have a lower drain capacitance, allowing large high frequency output impedance to be achieved without an extra cascode transistor. Elimination of the cascode reduces transistor headroom requirements and allows the DAC to be built with a 1.8V supply. The RF DAC prototype is targeted to GSM transmit specifications and implemented in 0.1 8ptm CMOS technology. Measured single-tone SFDR is -75dBc, SNR is 52dB, and IMD3 is -70.8dBc over a 17.5MHz bandwidth centered at 942.5MHz. Measured SNR has the predicted dependence on the phase alignment of the data clock and oscillating pulse.
Download or read book Optical and Wireless Convergence for 5G Networks written by Abdelgader M. Abdalla and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mobile market has experienced unprecedented growth over the last few decades. Consumer trends have shifted towards mobile internet services supported by 3G and 4G networks worldwide. Inherent to existing networks are problems such as lack of spectrum, high energy consumption, and inter-cell interference. These limitations have led to the emergence of 5G technology. It is clear that any 5G system will integrate optical communications, which is already a mainstay of wide area networks. Using an optical core to route 5G data raises significant questions of how wireless and optical can coexist in synergy to provide smooth, end-to-end communication pathways. Optical and Wireless Convergence for 5G Networks explores new emerging technologies, concepts, and approaches for seamlessly integrating optical-wireless for 5G and beyond. Considering both fronthaul and backhaul perspectives, this timely book provides insights on managing an ecosystem of mixed and multiple access network communications focused on optical-wireless convergence. Topics include Fiber–Wireless (FiWi), Hybrid Fiber-Wireless (HFW), Visible Light Communication (VLC), 5G optical sensing technologies, approaches to real-time IoT applications, Tactile Internet, Fog Computing (FC), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and many others. This book aims to provide an inclusive survey of 5G optical-wireless requirements, architecture developments, and technological solutions.
Download or read book Advances in Analog and RF IC Design for Wireless Communication Systems written by Michael H. Perrott and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time-to-digital converter (TDC) circuits are a key component for achieving high-performance digital phase-locked loops (PLLs) which offer lower area and greater flexibility than their analog PLL counterparts. This chapter focuses on a recently developed TDC architecture known as the gated ring oscillator (GRO) which offers first-order shaping of its quantization noise and delay stage mismatch. To provide context for the GRO discussion, background on general TDC implementation techniques is described along with key performance issues related to digital frequency synthesizers. The GRO concept is then presented, followed by implementation details and measured results. Finally, recent variations on the GRO concept are described such as a MASH TDC structure which achieves higher-order noise shaping and a switched ring oscillator (SRO) TDC which improves robustness to dead zones encountered by the GRO TDC.
Download or read book Advances in Analog and RF IC Design for Wireless Communication Systems written by Salvatore Levantino and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than one decade after their introduction into radio-frequency applications, digital fractional-N phase-locked loops (PLLs) have become a relevant topic in microelectronic research and a practical solution for products. In addition to the well-known advantages, such as their silicon area occupation scaling as technology node and their easier portability to new nodes, digital PLLs enable easy and low-cost implementation of calibration techniques, which substantially reduce spurious tones and remove other major analog impairments. In wideband PLLs, the ultimate level of spur performance is often bounded by the time resolution and the linearity of the time-to-digital converter within the digital PLL. Methods for mitigating its nonlinearity such as those based on element randomization and large-scale dithering are discussed. The use of fractional-N dividers based on digital-to-time converters, as a means to relax the design of the time-to-digital converter, is also reviewed. This concept is extended to the limit case of a single-bit time-to-digital converter, which provides best PLL noise–power trade-off with good spur performance.
Download or read book High Q AlGaN GaN Varactors for Mobile Communication Systems written by Raul Amirpour and published by Fraunhofer Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, adaptive circuits are investigated to tackle the increasing complexity of modern mobile communication systems, due to new standards like LTE and 5G. The crucial element of an adaptive circuit, like a tunable filter, is the tunable component. However, available tunable capacitors - or varactors - are not able to fulfill the stringent requirements of modern mobile communication systems concerning quality factor, tuning ratio, frequency, and linearity. In this work, linear high-Q AlGaN/GaN varactors are developed based on the Fraunhofer IAF technology. A large-signal model is presented and the devices are transferred to a cheap GaN on Silicon technology. The developed devices are proposed as a powerful alternative to existing varactor concepts, as they display superior performance especially at frequencies exceeding 2 GHz.
Download or read book A Poly phased Time interleaved Radio Frequency Digital to analog Converter Poly TI RF DAC written by Vipul J. Patel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing data rates and new communication standards owing to substantial advancements in digitizing and signal processing capabilities over the last century, the radio spectrum is increasingly becoming a finite and expensive resource. Furthermore, radar systems and 5G communication systems have revealed the need for gigahertz-frequency signal generation with flexible frequency planning and minimal spurious emissions. Advanced digital-to-analog converters (DACs), along with associated filtering, are critical enablers of these new systems and play a key role in meeting stringent system requirements. In conventional implementations, however, high quality filters are specific to one frequency band thereby limiting their operational agility. Therefore, a DAC architecture that removes undesired image replicas, mixer sidebands, and harmonic nonlinearities is an essential component for flexible frequency synthesis as it allows for reduced filtering requirements while enabling new software-defined transmitter techniques.This dissertation aims to provide a quantitative study and analysis of a poly-phased, time-interleaved Nyquist radio frequency digital-to-analog converter (Poly-TI-RF-DAC) for use in spectrum-agile and software-defined transmitters. Beginning with the fundamental understanding of high-speed DAC capabilities and limitations, the mathematical and behavioral analyses give insight into the signal, sideband, and image replica locations of the proposed architecture. Additionally, the use of a mixing DAC as the core structure is discussed along with how nonlinearities can be canceled with the appropriate choice of frequency planning.
Download or read book Data Converters for Wireless Standards written by Chunlei Shi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the design of data converters for emerging standards and introduces the underlying circuit design principles. It is an excellent reference for IC and mixed signal designers, design managers and project leaders in industry, particularly those in the wireless semiconductor industry.
Download or read book Analog to Digital Conversion written by Marcel J.M. Pelgrom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-24 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book is like a window that allows you to look into the world. The window is shaped by the author and that makes that every window presents a unique view of the world. This is certainly true for this book. It is shaped by the topics and the projects throughout my career. Even more so, this book re?ects my own style of working and thinking. That starts already in Chap. 2. When I joined Philips Research in 1979, many of my colleagues used little paper notebooks to keep track of the most used equations and other practical things. This notebook was the beginning for Chap. 2: a collection of topics that form the basis for much of the other chapters. Chapter2 is not intended to explain these topics, but to refresh your knowledge and help you when you need some basics to solve more complex issues. In the chapters discussing the fundamental processes of conversion, you will r- ognize my preoccupation with mathematics. I really enjoy ?nding an equation that properly describes the underlying mechanism. Nevertheless mathematics is not a goalonitsown:theequationshelptounderstandthewaythevariablesareconnected to the result. Real insight comes from understanding the physics and electronics. In the chapters on circuit design I have tried to reduce the circuit diagrams to the s- plest form, but not simpler. . . I do have private opinions on what works and what should not be applied.
Download or read book Generalized Low Voltage Circuit Techniques for Very High Speed Time Interleaved Analog to Digital Converters written by Sai-Weng Sin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) play an important role in most modern signal processing and wireless communication systems where extensive signal manipulation is necessary to be performed by complicated digital signal processing (DSP) circuitry. This trend also creates the possibility of fabricating all functional blocks of a system in a single chip (System On Chip - SoC), with great reductions in cost, chip area and power consumption. However, this tendency places an increasing challenge, in terms of speed, resolution, power consumption, and noise performance, in the design of the front-end ADC which is usually the bottleneck of the whole system, especially under the unavoidable low supply-voltage imposed by technology scaling, as well as the requirement of battery operated portable devices. Generalized Low-Voltage Circuit Techniques for Very High-Speed Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converters will present new techniques tailored for low-voltage and high-speed Switched-Capacitor (SC) ADC with various design-specific considerations.
Download or read book Large Signal Modeling of GaN Devices for Designing High Power Amplifiers of Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems written by Anwar Jarndal and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Low Power Analog to Digital Converter Design for Software defined Radios written by Muhamamd Z. Ali and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing data requirements have created a frequency shortage that has led to a wider spectrum being used for wireless data transmission. In a transceiver, analog-to-digital converters are rate-limiting steps that require a radio frequency filter in the front end design to operate effectively. Data converters with high bandwidths can eliminate front end filters and provide a power and cost-efficient solution. Data transmission is done digitally and modulated and demodulated via software. This thesis explored the design of high speed, low power data converters for software-defined radio applications. Data converter architectures were considered in detail before selecting a binary search method with capacitor-based digital to analog converters. This architecture was chosen due to its intrinsic compatibility with the short channel manufacturing process. The final design was adaptable to smaller nodes in next generation manufacturing processes. A full system-level model was included with transistor-level implementation for the front end track and hold and comparator. The groundwork was set for future work on a complete design that features time interleaving. System-level analysis was performed on a variety of nonidealities, and correction schemes were proposed. A high speed, low power data converter was designed for software-defined radio applications.
Download or read book Cellular Radio written by Asha Mehrotra and published by Artech House Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering analog and digital cellular communication systems, this book outlines solutions to analog cellular signal coverage. It describes practical digital microwave schemes used to transfer information and digitized speech among cell sites, the Mobile Telephone Switching Office, and the local telephone exchange, and shows how cellular radio systems can be tied to a nationwide network. Includes 500 equations and 212 illustrations.
Download or read book Micro System Gallium Nitride RF Broad Band High Power Amplifier written by Markus Mußer and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
