Date: 17th Feb 2010
Imec, Renesas and M4S presents 40nm CMOS
based single-chip multi-standard wireless transceiver
Imec, Renesas and M4S have reported a single-chip reconfigurable
multi-standard wireless transceiver with baseband and data
converter circuits in 40nm CMOS. The new reconfigurable
transceiver is suitable for various wireless standards and
applications such as mobile broadband 3GPP-LTE standard.
The flexible transmitter reaches low out-of-band noise,
targeting SAW-less 3GPP-LTE operation. The transceiver integrates
this multi-standard programmability in a small chip area
of only 5mm2 while achieving high performance and power
consumption for each covered standard.
The flexible receiver, including analog-to-digital converter,
is fully software configurable across all channels in the
frequency bands between 100MHz and 6GHz. Its properties
such as the RF carrier frequency, channel bandwidth, noise
figure, linearity and filter characteristics can be adapted
to the requirements of the communication standard that is
used. It combines high sensitivities with low phase noise
and high linearity.
"We are excited that together with our reconfigurable
radio program partners Renesas and M4S, we have reached
this great achievement with the conception of a low-cost,
low-power reconfigurable transceiver for next-generation
mobile broadband communications;" said Liesbet Van
der Perre, director green radios program at imec. "We
are looking forward to continue the collaboration towards
next generation wireless."
"It gives us great pleasure to have helped achieve
one of the important milestones of imec's research program
by developing an innovative reconfigurable RF transceiver
that uses state-of-the-art CMOS technology;" said Yoshinobu
Nakagome, general manager of Advanced Analog Technology
Div. Design and Development Unit at Renesas Technology Corp.
"This accomplishment bolsters our efforts to develop
new RF products that support multiple communication standards,
including 3GPP-LTE."
"We are proud to have contributed to imec's outstanding
"green radio program" and more specifically to
the reconfigurable RF transceiver R&D. The device presented
today is an excellent Proof-of-Concept device, clearly demonstrating
the potential of several innovative 40nm CMOS RF circuit
concepts that where invented at Imec." said Ivo Vandeweerd,
CEO of M4S. "Some of these inventions have contributed
to the competitiveness of our RF products, which we believe
are the smallest, lowest power consuming, multi-mode (2G/3G/LTE),
commercial RF transceivers in the world. We are looking
forward to continue our collaboration with imec, seeding
our internal R&D to stay at the leading edge of innovation."
For more details visit www.imec.be, and www.renesas.com
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