EDN

A Designer’s Guide to CMOS RF Models

In recent years we have begun to see references to “RF” CMOS processes and to “RF” models for those processes. This article will explore what the real meanings of such “RF” designations are, and what ...
Design-Reuse

Mixed-signal design flow enables RF CMOS chip

Spirea AB is a Swedish fabless semiconductor company developing highly integrated low-power, low-cost radio solutions for the Wireless LAN and PAN markets. This article describes how we assembled a ...
EDN

Scots RF CMOS design team goes on hiring drive

LONDON — Elonics Ltd., a developer of RF CMOS ICs for consumer electronics, is hiring for its Livingston, Scotland, design team. The company needs an analog layout engineer and an applications ...
Design-Reuse

Jazz Licenses Its RF Design Enablement Technology to Fujitsu Microelectronics, Providing Time-to-Market Advantage for 90nm and 65nm RF CMOS Customers

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., November 12, 2008 – Jazz Semiconductor, Inc., a Tower Group Company (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), and a leader in Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal (AIMS) foundry solutions, ...
Electronics Weekly

RF CMOS will not save costs, says Renesas

Incorporating front-end RF functions into the digital baseband of CMOS comms chips will not prove economical except for low-spec voice-only handsets, according to Renesas Technology. Despite claims ...
Electronic Design

Facing The Challenge Of Adding RF And Mixed-Signal IP To SoCs

Designers must deal with multiple simulation domains, floorplanning, IP packaging, and other key issues. As CMOS technologies scale to greater densities, the ability to design and integrate complex ...
Nature

CMOS Mixers and Low-Power RF Circuit Design

CMOS mixers are integral components in modern radio frequency (RF) circuit design, enabling frequency conversion in wireless systems while prioritising low power consumption. Recent progress in ...
AZOM

Nanusens Solves Challenges of 6G RF Front End Design with its RF DTCs

Nanusens has announced that it has used its pioneering MEMS-within-CMOS™ technology to create a novel solution to the challenge of creating better RF front ends for 6G. Josep Montanyà, Nanusens’ CEO, ...
Electronic Design

Design Tools Produce Low-Cost, Single-Chip RF CMOS Devices

For the design and production of low-cost, single-chip RF CMOS devices, the RFPro-L, RFXpert and RFWise design tools are said to eliminate the re-design of spiral inductors for various silicon ...
Electronics Weekly

Ericsson, Chartered Demonstrate RF CMOS Chip For Bluetooth

Ericsson Microelectronics and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. today jointly announced they have developed a high-performance 0.25-micron RF CMOS chip for Bluetooth applications. The ...
Semiconductor Engineering

CMOS And SOI Invade RF Front End

The next-generation 4G wireless standard known as long-term evolution (LTE) presents some new and difficult design choices for OEMs. One of the more difficult choices involves the less glamorous, but ...