EECS 298-11: CAD Seminar
Monday, February 12, 1996, 5pm
531 Cory Hall, Hogan Room

Note special day and time.


	 Low Power RF-Receiver IC's for Mobile Communications

			   Francesco Piazza
		Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
			 Zurich, Switzerland


The fast growing wireless communications market has created the
urgence for low power, low cost solutions, to implement both the
digital processing and the RF analog parts of communications
radios. If digital CMOS circuits have evolved substantially in the
past few years, the same is not true for the RF receiver circuits,
that have remained relatively unchanged during the last 40 years or
so. In this talk, after a brief discussion on the most common receiver
architectures and their implications on RF IC-design, the
implementation of two low power RF front-end circuits for ERMES and
GPS applications is given.  It is also shown how using solutions which
differ from the most established ones may lead to a substantial
reduction of cost and off-chip passive component count.


Upcoming seminars:

   Feb. 14 (3pm): Miron Abramovici, AT&T Bell Labs

   Feb. 14 (5pm): Scott Hauck, Northwestern University

   Feb. 21: Alex Saldanha, Cadence Berkeley Labs

   Feb. 28: Ramin Hojati, UC Berkeley