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Design-For-Yield of Complex Multi-Band Radios for 4G Wireless |
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Principal Investigator: |
Mohammed Ismail, Professor, The Ohio State University |
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1. Future radio transceivers will be rather complex to meet increased demands of high data rates and operation requirements everywhere on the globe. Convergence of cellular and WLAN traffic for VoIP is therefore required with the radio operating in multiple RF bands and with different modulation schemes ranging from QPSK to 64- and 256-QAM OFDM. Current and future trends call for the highest levels of integration to achieve the envisioned multifunctionality of handheld devices that are also low cost and low power. While CMOS scaling to nanometer levels, coupled with innovations in platform based systems and Network-on-Chip (SOC and NOC), have resulted in great strides for the digital system components(digital baseband/MAC), the radio/RF-front end remains a major bottleneck.
This project will develop a smart fully integrated radio design and implementation technology whereby fully functional high-yield 1st-time-right silicon is achievable. The project will focus on the radio transmitter (TX), including the PLL. The work should lead to quantum improvements in design productivity of complex radios for the next generation wireless with a goal to significantly cut the spiraling NRE costs of radio development. |
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2. Company Sponsor: Intel
3. Project Funding Level: $50,000
4. Principle Investigator(s): |
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University |
5. Student Information:
Ms. Sezi Yamac will be working on this project. She has an M.Sc. degree from The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology where she worked on high speed clock and data recovery circuits. She joined the Analog VLSI Lab at the Ohio State Univ. in the Fall of 2006, and is pursuing her Ph.D. degree on self calibration of broadband Fractional-N Phase-Lock-Loops targeting fully integrated radios for wireless handhelds. |
6. Company Web Address: www.intel.com
Contacts:
Mr. Joon Kim ( hyung.j.kim@intel.com )
Mr. Mohamed Arafa ( mohamed.arafa@intel.com ) |
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