Adaptive Multi-Standard RF Front-Ends - Leeuwenburgh, Arjan

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Résumé :
N this information era people are living in a society in which processing, ?ow and Iexchange of information are vital for their existence. Two major issues in such so- ety, which are related to ?ow and exchange of information, are connectivity and mobility. On one hand, computers and Internet provide connectivity and allow communication as well as fast access to large amounts of information. On the other hand, wireless techno- gies bring mobility. People can move and still be able to communicate and have access to various kind of information. Therefore, the functioning of an information society is unthinkable without the use of computers, Internet and wireless technologies. The exp- tations are that in the future they will merge into a unique system for communication, access to information as well as their exchange and processing. The era of wireless communications started in 1901, when Guglielmo Marconi s- cessfully transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean. From that moment up to now wireless communications experienced explosive growth and became the fastest growing ?eld in the engineering world. Pushed by customer requirements, new wireless techno- gies have been emerging very fast. Each new generation of wireless technologies have brought new features and more complexity. Pushed by market forces to reduce costs, the semiconductor industry has provided new technologies for solid-state circuits implem- tation. Fortunately at the same time with the cost reduction, performance of new te- nologies has been improving.

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Khaled Khalaf Khaled Khalaf obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium in 2016. He works as a researcher at IMEC, Leuven, Belgium with interest on CMOS mm-wave circuits and systems for wireless applications with more emphasis on low-power transmitters for high datarate communication. Vojkan Vidojkovic Vojkan Vidojkovic received his PhD degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2007. He works as a technical staff member at Intel in Germany. John R. Long John R. Long has a Ph.D. degree in Electronics from Carleton University in Ottawa. He worked in industry for 12 years in the Advanced Technology Laboratory at Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, and in January 2015 he was appointed Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His current research interests include low-power and broadband circuits for highly-integrated wireless transceivers, energy-efficient wireless sensors, mm-wave IC design, and electronics design for high-speed data communications. Piet Wambacq Piet Wambacq has a Ph.D. degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. He is a Principal Scientist at IMEC, Heverlee, Belgium, working on RF CMOS design for wireless applications. Since 2000 he is a Professor with the University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium....