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Continuous-Time Digital Front-Ends for Multistandard Wireless Transmission

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  1. Pieter A. J. Nuyts

    1. Tri ICT, Zaventem, Belgium

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  2. Patrick Reynaert

    1. KU Leuven, ESAT-MICAS, Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Wim Dehaene

    1. KU Leuven, ESAT-MICAS, Leuven, Belgium

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  • Describes the design of multistandard digital transmitters and/or continuous-time digital circuits, including theoretical models and adapted implementations of digital building blocks
  • Uses a top-down approach, moving from the architectural level, via mathematical models and high-level simulations, down to circuit-level implementation aspects, including parasitic capacitances and variability
  • Applies techniques described to the design of two Ghz-range multistandard transmitters
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing (ACSP)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    • Pieter A. J. Nuyts, Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene
    Pages 1-14

  3. Digital Transmitter Architectures: Overview

    • Pieter A. J. Nuyts, Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene
    Pages 15-50

  4. High-Level Analysis of Fully Digital PWM Transmitters

    • Pieter A. J. Nuyts, Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene
    Pages 51-124

  5. Continuous-Time Digital Design Techniques

    • Pieter A. J. Nuyts, Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene
    Pages 125-185

  7. A 40-nm CMOS Fully Digital Reconfigurable Transmitter with Class-D PAs Using Baseband and RF PWM

    • Pieter A. J. Nuyts, Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene
    Pages 219-254

  8. Conclusions and Future Work

    • Pieter A. J. Nuyts, Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene
    Pages 255-275

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 277-309
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This book describes the design of fully digital multistandard transmitter front-ends which can directly drive one or more switching power amplifiers, thus eliminating all other analog components. After reviewing different architectures, the authors focus on polar architectures using pulse width modulation (PWM), which are entirely based on unclocked delay lines and other continuous-time digital hardware. As a result, readers are enabled to shift accuracy concerns from the voltage domain to the time domain, to coincide with submicron CMOS technology scaling. The authors present different architectural options and compare them, based on their effect on the signal and spectrum quality. Next, a high-level theoretical analysis of two different PWM-based architectures – baseband PWM and RF PWM – is made. On the circuit level, traditional digital components and design techniques are revisited from the point of view of continuous-time digital circuits. Important design criteria are identified and different solutions are presented, along with their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, two chips designed in nanometer CMOS technologies are described, along with measurement results for validation.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Tri ICT, Zaventem, Belgium

    Pieter A. J. Nuyts

  • KU Leuven, ESAT-MICAS, Leuven, Belgium

    Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Continuous-Time Digital Front-Ends for Multistandard Wireless Transmission

  • Authors: Pieter A. J. Nuyts, Patrick Reynaert, Wim Dehaene

  • Series Title: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03925-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03924-4Published: 23 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37881-7Published: 01 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03925-1Published: 03 January 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1872-082X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-1854

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 309

  • Number of Illustrations: 161 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Signal, Image and Speech Processing

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