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RSS cmosA Low Power Fully Integrated Analog Baseband Circuit With Variable Bandwidth for 802.11 a/b/g WLAN
White Paper This paper presents experimental results of an analog baseband circuit with variable bandwidth for WLAN direct conversion receiver in UMC 0.18um CMOS process. A seventh order chebyshev lowpass filter with triple bandwidth is used in the analog... [11 Jul 2008]
Bandwidth Mismatch and Its Correction in Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converters
White Paper Due to the rapid evolution of CMOS technologies, digital processing of signals has become an attractive option in mixed-signal systems. The sample-and-hold amplifier in each channel of a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter system has... [11 Jul 2008]
Process Variation Aware Transistor Sizing for Load Balance of Multiple Paths in Dynamic CMOS for Timing Optimization
White Paper The complexity in timing optimization of high-performance microprocessors has been increasing with the number of channel-connected transistors in various paths of dynamic CMOS circuits and the rising magnitude of process variations in nanometer... [10 Jul 2008]
A Low-Noise Fast-Settling PLL With Extended Loop Bandwidth Enhancement by New Adaptation Technique
White Paper Based on the proposed adaptation scheme, a 450MHz frequency synthesizer with a 200kHz channel spacing is implemented in 0.5µm CMOS process. A new adaptation scheme for low noise and fast settling Phase Locked Loops (PLL's) is presented. [10 Jul 2008]
A CFO's Guide to Analytics
White Paper While adoption has largely been driven by forward-thinking CEOs, CIOs and CMOs, analytics is reaching the office of the CFO. Over the past few years, analytics has emerged as an important management discipline. [08 Jul 2008]
All-Digital TX Frequency Synthesizer and Discrete-Time Receiver for Bluetooth Radio in 130-nm CMOS
White Paper The paper presents a single-chip fully compliant Bluetooth radio fabricated in a digital 130-nm CMOS process. The transceiver is architectured from the ground up to be compatible with digital deep-submicron CMOS processes and be readily integrated... [16 May 2008]
The CMO's Strategic Agenda Benchmark Report
White Paper This Aberdeen Group reports provides a blueprint of what best-in-class CMOs (Chief Marketing Officers) do to improve marketing effectiveness through marketing automation. Marketing executives face a constant stream of business pressure. [11 Apr 2008]
A 10000 Fps CMOS Sensor With Massively Parallel Image Processing
White Paper A high speed analog VLSI image acquisition and pre-processing system has been designed and fabricated in a 0.35 µm standard CMOS process. The chip features a massively parallel architecture enabling the computation of programmable low-level image... [19 Mar 2008]
Integration of High-Performance Transistors, High-Density SRAMs, and 10-Level Copper Interconnects Into a 90 nm CMOS Technology
White Paper This paper presents a 40 nm-gate-length transistor, an ultra-high-density 6T SRAM cell, 10-level Cu interconnects, and Very-Low-K (VLK) dielectrics for high-performance microprocessor applications. The key process features are 193 nm lithography... [29 Feb 2008]
Extended 90 nm CMOS Technology With High Manufacturability for High-Performance, Low-Power, RF/Analog Applications
White Paper High-density, 90 nm CMOS technology has been suggested for generic, low-voltage, high-performance applications. This paper, describes some strategies for extending the previous technology in order to fabricate the following: A low-standby-power... [28 Feb 2008]
Statistical Static Timing Analysis Technology
White Paper With CMOS technology scaling down to the nanometer realm, process variations have been increased. In particular, the increase of delay variations has seriously affected the design periods and timing yields. [14 Feb 2008]
Development of SOI Based MMICs for Wireless LAN Applications
White Paper Due to its improved RF performances over conventional CMOS technology, SOI technology is a promising candidate for front-end wireless transceiver circuits. This paper demonstrates the development of fully on-chip integrated SOI based MMICs for IEEE... [05 Dec 2007]
Gate Dielectric Scaling for High-Performance CMOS: From SiO2 to High-K
White Paper The silicon industry has been scaling SiO2 aggressively for the past 15 years for low power, high-performance CMOS logic applications. There are many challenges reported in literature in replacing SiO2 with high-K for high-performance CMOS. [06 Nov 2007]
Emerging Silicon and Non-Silicon Nanoelectronic Devices: Opportunities and Challenges for Future High-Performance and Low-Power Computational Applications
White Paper Furthermore, these devices are benchmarked against state-of-the-art Si CMOS technologies. Several key emerging nanoelectronic devices, such as Si nanowire Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), carbon nanotube FETs, and III-V compound semiconductor... [15 Sep 2007]
A Survey on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
White Paper The availability of low-cost hardware such as CMOS cameras and microphones has fostered the development of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), i.e.networks of wirelessly interconnected devices that are able to ubiquitously retrieve... [23 Aug 2007]
