Book description
With the growing complexity of personal mobile communication systems
demanding higher data-rates and high levels of integration using
low-cost CMOS technology, overall system performance has become more
sensitive to RF analog front-end impairments. Designing integrated
transceivers requires a thorough understanding of the whole
transceiver chain including RF analog front-end and digital baseband.
Communication system engineers have to include RF analog imperfections
in their simulation benches in order to study and quantify their
impact on the system performance.
Here the author explores key RF analog impairments in a transceiver
and demonstrates how to model their impact from a communication system
design view-point. He discusses the design aspects of the front end of
transceivers (both receivers and transmitters) and provides the reader
with a way to optimize a complex mixed-signal platform by taking into
account the characteristics of the RF/analog front-end.
Key features of this book include:
- Practical examples illustrated by system simulation results based
on WiFi and mobile WiMAX OFDM transceivers
- An overview of the digital estimation and compensation of the RF
analog impairments such as power amplifier distortion, quadrature
imbalance, and carrier and sampling frequency offsets
- An exposition of the challenges involved in the design of both RF
analog circuits and DSP communication circuits in deep submicron
CMOS technology
- MATLAB® codes for RF analog impairments models hosted on the
companion website
Uniquely the book bridges the gap between RFIC design specification
needs and communication systems simulation, offering readers RF analog
impairments modeling knowledge and a comprehensive approach to
unifying theory and practice in system modelling. It is of great value
to communication systems and DSP engineers and graduate students who
design communication processing engines, RF/analog systems and IC
design engineers involved in the design of communication platforms.
