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On-Chip Calibration, Compensation, and Filtering Techniques for Wireless SoC

Time: Sunday, June 15th, 8am - 5pm

Topics & Speakers:

1. IIP2 and DC offset calibration techniques in 3G transceivers, Dr. Krzysztof Dufrene, DICE Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering GmbH
   
   
2. Accurate tuning and calibration of Fractional-N frequency synthesizers, Waleed Khalil, Robert Santucci, and Dmitry Petrov, Intel Corp.
   
   
3. Calibration Techniques for Wireless SoCs, Arya Behzad, Broadcom Corp.
   
   
4. Digital Hardware and Software Based Mechanisms for Calibration and Compensation in Wireless SoCs, Oren Eliezer, Texas Instruments
   
   
5. Compensation of radio impairments for low cost wireless transceiver design, Steve Cicarrelli, Qualcomm
   
   
6. Calibration, Compensation, and On-chip Filtering techniques used in 3G transceivers, Jonathan Strange, Mediatek Wireless, UK
   
   
7. Digital Calibration Techniques for Cellular Receivers, Abdellatif Bellaouar, Sherif Embabi, and Hamid Safiri, Sirific Wireless
   
   
8. Digital Calibration Techniques for Cellular Transmitters, Abdellatif Bellaouar, Sherif Embabi, and Hamid Safiri, Sirific Wireless
   

Organizers:

Dr. Walid Ali-Ahmad, MediaTek, Singapore

Sponsors: RFIC

Workshop Abstract:

As wireless SoCs are being targeted for multistandard and multi-band applications, the demand is still for excellent radio performance and minimum number of off-chip components. In addition, higher quality modulation techniques are being used in these systems to deliver higher data rates in a cellular environment. Hence, there is more weight being put on developing RF front-ends which are as good as ideal! Furthermore, there is currently a big emphasis on eliminating the undesirable large number of external RF SAW filters in multiband operation. In order to achieve all these new requirements, on-chip correction techniques are needed that complement the on-chip radio circuitry and benefit from state-of-the-art CMOS processes currently available for wireless SoCs. This workshop will review on-chip calibration techniques for RF and BB impairments compensation, plus on-chip filtering circuitry to relax front-end linearity requirements and minimize the need for off-chip filters.