“RFIC Design Techniques for CMOS Wireless Transceivers” by Professor Howard Luong, an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Date: September 26, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Venue: PSDC, 1 Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia

Admission is free. Refreshments will be provided.

Network and interact with like-minded engineers and researchers before the seminar begins.

Abstract

Recent advances in CMOS technologies have made it possible and attractive to design and to integrate radio-frequency (RF) circuits for single-chip wireless transceivers in CMOS. This talk reviews the motivation, the status, and the challenges in realizing such CMOS systems for wireless communication.

First, the talk will start with motivation for low-voltage low-power RF circuits. Second, design techniques of critical RFIC building blocks with state-of-the-art performance will be reviewed. Third, design consideration and integration issues for single-chip CMOS wireless transceivers will be discussed. As illustration, a fully-integrated low-voltage low-power CMOS synthesizer and a single-chip CMOS

transceivers will be briefly presented. Finally, the talk will be concluded with brief summary of remaining challenges and technology trends.

Speaker

Howard Luong received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from University of California at Berkeley in 1988, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Since September 1994, he has joined the EEE faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he has been a professor. In 2001, he took a one-year sabbatical leave to work at Maxim Integrated Products, California, USA, developing a new wireless product.  Currently, he is a MediaTek Endowed Visiting Professor at NTU, Singapore.

Professor Luong’s research interests are in analog, RF, and mm-Wave integrated circuits and systems for wireless and portable applications. He is currently serving as an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer, an Associate Editor for IEEE Virtual Journal on RFIC, a Guest Editor for Journal of Emerging Technologies on Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), and a technical program committee member of many conferences, including Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC).