This book presents architectural and circuit techniques for wireless transceivers to achieve multistandard and low-voltage compliance. It provides an up-to-date survey and detailed study of the state-of-the-art transceivers for modern single- and multi-purpose wireless communication systems. The book includes comprehensive analysis and design of multimode reconfigurable receivers and transmitters for an efficient multistandard compliance.

The prospect of initializing a network-ubiquitous society in the years to come has led to the development of multistandard-compliant wireless transceivers for seamless roaming among multiple networks. To ensure a commercial success of such a development, the manufacturing cost and power consumption of the system chips have to be minimized. The use of an advanced technology and a high level of integration have continued to be the most effective ways for cost and power minimization, given that wireless chips integrate large amounts of digital logic for computation. Regrettably, entering into the nanoelectronics era, the thinner transistor gate oxide implicates great challenges in the design of the analog front-ends. While a low-voltage supply is imposed to maintain device reliability, a relatively large threshold voltage is also necessitated to limit the leakage current. Thus, transceiver architectures and circuits which will befit future full integration of multistandard wireless transceivers in sub-1V nanoscale CMOS processes must be highly reconfigurable and robustly operational underneath a l- voltage supply. This book presents novel analog-baseband architectures and circuits that help realizing multistandard and low-voltage wireless transceivers. The main contents are presented from Chapter 2 to Chapter 6, as pictorially outlined in Figure 1. Chapter 1 overviews the current wireless-IC developments and presents the motivation and research objectives of this book. xi xii Preface Figure 1.

Up-to-date survey and detailed study of the state-of-the-art transceivers for modern single- and multi-purpose wireless communication systems Comprehensive analysis and design of multimode reconfigurable receivers and transmitters for an efficient multistandard compliance Methodical design of true low-voltage baseband circuits in CMOS Design and implementation of the state-of-the-art lowest voltage baseband programmable-gain amplifier in CMOS Design and implementation of the state-of-the-art lowest voltage flexible-IF receiver analog baseband for IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLAN in CMOS

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Shuhao Fan received her B.Sc. in Electronic and Information Engineering from Northeast Forestry University, China, in 2016, and her M.Sc. in IC Design Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, in 2017. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Macau, Macau, in 2024. Her research focuses on analog CMOS circuit design for portable nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) systems and miniaturized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) platforms. Qi Zhou received the B.Sc. degree in instrument science and engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2017, and the M.Sc. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2019. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) with the University of Macau, Macau. His current research interests include portable nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and related applications. Ka-Meng Lei received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering (EEE) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the University of Macau, Macau, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He has served as an Assistant professor at the University of Macau since 2019. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 2017 to 2019, where he was involved in developing the high-resolution portable nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer. Ka-Meng Lei has published 40+ refereed papers. He co-authored one book Handheld Total Chemical and Biological Analysis Systems: Bridging NMR, Digital Microfluidics, and Semiconductors (Springer’18), and two book chapter Micro-NMR on CMOS for Biomolecular Sensing (Springer’18) and Ultra-Low-Voltage Clock References (Springer’23). His current research interests include ultralow voltage analog circuit techniques, sensors and analog front-end interfaces, and high-resolution portable NMR platforms. Rui P. Martins received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1992, and has been with that Department since October 1980. From 1992, he has been on leave from University of Lisbon and with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macao, China, where he is a Chair-Professor since Aug. 2013. His research interests are on analog and mixed-signal VLSI design and has authored or co-authored 900+ publications, including 10 books, 12 book chapters, 50 Patents, 300+ papers in scientific journals and 400+ in conference proceedings. He was the Founding Director of the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, between 2011 and 2022, and is currently the Director of the Institute of Microelectronics, both at the University of Macau, Macao, China. Prof. Rui Martins is an IEEE Fellow, received an Author Recognition Award at the 70 years of ISSCC, in 2023, as a Top Contributor with more than 50 papers, and 3 Medals from Macao Government in 1999, 2001 and 2021. Since July 2010 he is an Academician with the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Portugal. Pui-In Mak received the Ph.D. degree from University of Macau (UM), Macao, China, in 2006. He is currently Professor at UM Faculty of Science and Technology – ECE Department, Director at the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI and Deputy Director (Research) at the Institute of Microelectronics. His research interests are on analog and radio-frequency (RF) circuits and systems for wireless and multidisciplinary innovations. His involvements with IEEE are: Editorial Board Member of IEEE Press (’14-’16); Member of Board-of-Governors of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (’09-’11); Senior Editor of IEEE

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With the past few decade efforts on lithography and integrated-circuit (IC) technologies, very low-cost microsystems have been successfully developed for many different applications. The trend in wireless communications is toward creating a networkubiquitous era in the years to come. Many unprecedented opportunities and challenges, such as Design for multi-standardability and low-voltage (LV) compliance, are rapidly becoming the mainstream directions in wireless-IC research and development, given that the former can offer the best connectivity among different networks, while the latter can facilitate the technology migration into the sub-1-V nanoscale regimes for further cost and power reduction.

Analog-Baseband Architecturees and Circuits presents architectural and circuit techniques for wireless transceivers to achieve multistandard and low-voltage compliance. The first part of the book reviews the physical layer specifications of modern wireless communication standards, presents the fundamental tradeoffs involved in transceiver architecture selection, and provides case studies of the state-of-the-art multistandard transceivers, where the key techniques reinforced are highlighted and discussed. A statistical summary (with 100+ references cited) of most used transmitter and receiver architectures for modern communication standards is provided. All the references are citied from the leading forums, i.e., ISSCC, C…