WSC: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEXT GENERATION OF RFIC

Date & Time: Sunday, June 12; 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Long Beach Convention Center, Room 103AB

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New technologies are currently emerging, which will dramatically impact the design of radiofrequency integrated circuits in a close future. Among them, the advent of Bulk Acoustic Wave devices (BAW) as well as Silicon On Insulator industrial processes (SOI) will undoubtedly open the way to a new era of RFIC System On Chip – assuming that the cost remain as low as possible and the reliability as high as possible. This workshop addresses different BAW technologies and approaches, emphasizing on RF functions for which this device cannot be overlooked. SOI technologies will be addressed too, for its influence on high frequencies as well as low-power consumption, and mixed-signal circuits. Finally, carbon nanotubes will be presented, as it might become an alternative to silicon transistors in the
future.As CMOS technology is scaling down, the question poses itself: What is the future of all-CMOS radio on a chip? The concept of full CMOS radio is an evolving reality, and the motivation for this workshop is to present key technical issues and put forward recommendations for future enabling technologies and design ideas. The workshop explores the impact of transistor and supply scaling on all-CMOS RF and mixed-signal circuits. The all-CMOS radio SoC (System-on-Chip) concept is tackled vs. the all-CMOS SiP (System-in-Package) concept with stress on design challenges and on integration and cost issues. The major topics addressed in this workshop include reducing substrate noise effects in all-CMOS radio chip, future RF CMOS modeling, digital calibration of Frac-N synthesizers and modulators, concepts of embedding high power CMOS PAs, power management circuits, and MEMS in full CMOS radio SoC.