Integrated Circuit Technology Options for RFIC’s—Present Status and Future Directions
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This paper will summarize the technology tradeoffs that are involved in the implementation of radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communications. Radio transceiver circuits have a very broad range of requirements—including noise figure, linearity, gain, phase noise, and power dissipation. The advantages and disadvantages of each of the competing technologies—Si CMOS and bipolar junction transistors (BJT’s), Si/SiGe HBT’s and GaAs MESFET’s, PHEMTS and HBT’s will be examined in light of these requirements.
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