Comprehensive GSM receiver specification paper from UC-Berkeley:
Also covers DECT and GPS receivers

Accompanying receiver specification spreadsheet:
Spreadsheet associated with Berkeley's GSM receiver specification paper

RF transceivers papers at UC-Berkeley:
Multiple papers and slides on GSM and DECT transceivers

Transceiver architectures for wireless ICs:
Pros and cons of many receiver architectures. Click on the pdf file so you can see the pictures

Milimiter-wave receiver in 90-nm CMOS by Professor Behzad Razavi of UCLA:
Great paper discusses issues in realizing the various transceiver building blocks in the 60-GHz band

Many papers on transceivers and building blocks, from UCLA:
Papers by Professor Behzad Razavi and his students at UCLA

Techniques to efficiently optimize a complete wireless receiver:
Deals with the long computation times involved in verifying a receiver's performance

Class notes from U. of Cincinnati:
Class notes from Professor James Caffery's Wireless Communications course

Derek Shaeffer's CMOS GPS receiver presentation:
115-mW CMOS GPS receiver in 0.5 um

Derek Shaeffer's CMOS Receivers PhD thesis:
Very comprehensive document covers various receiver architectures plus demonstration of a CMOS GPS receiver

Integrated 24 GHz phased-array receiver:
8-path, 24-GHz receiver demonstrated in 0.18um SiGe

Integrated Phased-Array Receivers in Silicon Phd thesis:
SiGe 24-Ghz receiver and 77-GHz transceiver demonstrated

CDMA transceiver thesis:
Very comprehensive document details issues at board and IC level

Front-end architectures for CMOS radio receivers:
Explores various receiver architectures with an eye on the feasibility of a CMOS implementation

Automated receiver design tool:
Details a tool that optimizes communications receiver design

Fully integrated transceiver in 0.25um CMOS:
Presents 1800-MHz transceiver integrated in 0.25um CMOS

5-GHz CMOS Wireless LAN receiver:
2x2 mm WLAN receiver in 0.24-um CMOS

A low-cost, low-power receiver:
In 0.25-um CMOS, targetting 1-Mb/s, short-range cable replacements

77-GHz phased-array transceiver with on-chip antennas: Part 1:
Integrated in 130-nm SiGe BicMOS. Part 1 covers the receiver and the on-chip anttenas

77-GHz phased-array transceiver with on-chip antennas: Part 2:
Integrated in 130-nm SiGe BicMOS. Part 2 covers the transmitter and the LO

Receivers for Wireless Sensor Networks PhD thesis:
100-kbps, 52-uW receiver for WSNs implemented in 90-nm CMOS operating at 2-GHz

Wireless Sensor Network receiver paper in ISSCC 2008:
100-kbps, 52-uW receiver for WSNs implemented in 90-nm CMOS operating at 2-GHz

60-GHz transceiver in 90-nm CMOS:
Involved on-chip transmission lines and EM simulations

Design and Optimization of UWB front end:
Implemented in 0.13-um CMOS. Presents a system optimization technique

Many publications from Berkeley Wireless Research Center:
Great resource

CMOS Software-Defined Radio presentation:
Presents feasibility of a CMOS SDR (receiver) that could work between 460 MHz and 5.8 GHz

2.4-GHz CMOS transceiver presentation:
Frequency-hopping transceiver for Wireless LAN presented

MIMO WLAN Transceiver paper:
Integrates two radio paths in SiGe process

RF Simulation paper:
Comprehensive paper discusses RF circuit simulation challenges and solutions

5-GHz W-CDMA transceiver:
Implemented on IBM's SiGe HBT process

65-nm CMOS W-band receiver:
76-92 GHz receiver front-end implemented in 65-nm, general-purpose CMOS

Cascaded Noise Figure calculation from RFMD:
Simple 50 ohm system. NA to modern Rx archtectures

Cascaded IP3 calculation from RFMD:
*Extensive* Mathcad routine to design integrated bandgap circuits

RFIC course notes from Oregon State:
Topics include LNA's, mixers, and impedance matching

Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Networks from MIT:
915-MHz transceiver for WSNs, supports 1-Mb/s data rate and fast startup times. Fabricated in 0.18-um

Transceiver for WSNs presentation from MIT:
915-MHz transceiver for WSNs in 0.18-um CMOS

UWB transceiver paper from MIT and U. of Michigan:
90-nm CMOS UWB transceiver operates in 3-5 GHz bands, features all-digital transmitter

Pulse-based UWB transmitters thesis by Professor Wentzloff:
Explores pulsed UWB transmitters, implements two transmitters in 3-10.6-GHz band, one in 0.18-um CMOS and one in 90-nm CMOS. The second one uses and all-digital architecture.

UWB transmitter dissertation from David Wentzloff:
0.18-um SiGe UWB transmitter and 90-nm ultra-low-power, all-digital CMOS UWB transmitter presented

UWB transceivers papers from Professor Wentzloff at U. of Michigan:
Useful reference for UWB

UWB transceiver system issues paper from MIT:
System issues for UWB transceivers operating in the 3-10.6 GHz bands

SiGe BiCMOS EIA-485 wireline transceiver that works from -180C to 125C (!!!), thesis from Georgia Tech:
Built using IBM's 0.5-um SiGe process, targets circuitry involved in space exploration. The circuits also need to tolerate large radiation doses

Low-cost testing and tuning techniques plus adaptive power reduction technique for RF transceivers: thesis from Georgia Tech:
Present new techniques to reduce cost and test times of RF transceivers, with OFDM and UWB as specific examples. Also presents a technique to adapatively reduce the power consumption of an RF transceiver that is already on the field by monitoring the received signal quality and environment conditions. Very interesting.

Highly linear, low flicker noise direct-conversion receiver for multiband applications: thesis from Georgia Tech:
Presents techniques to improve the issues that typically affect direct conversion receivers: linearity and flicker noise. Demonstrates by fabricating LNAs and mixers in a 0.18-um CMOS process.

SiGe circuits for UWB thesis from Georgia Tech:
Presents LNA, track-and-hold amplifier, and gm-C filter for UWB transceivers, demonstrates in various SiGe technology nodes. Explores response to radiation of high-frequency SiGe circuits.

SiGe circuits for communication and radar transceivers: thesis from Georgia Tech:
LNAs and other transceiver circuits for X-band (8-12 GHz) radar and milimeter-wave (>30 GHz) applications. Investigates radiation response of SiGe circuits.

SiGe transceiver circuits for X and K bands thesis from Georgia Tech:
Presents X (8-12 GHz) and K (24 GHz) band phase shifters and mixers and K-band PA for military and automotive applications. Implements in SiGe process. Investigates susceptibility of those circuits to substrate noise and coupling.

Wireless clock intra-chip distribution thesis from U. of Florida:
Attempts to circumvent issues with clock distribution on ICs by using a wireless clock distribution system. Demonstrates in UMC .13-micron process. Transmitting and receiving antennas separated by 260 microns. Operating frequency is ~18 GHz. Receiver consists of 20-GHz broadband LNA with 4 GHz 3-dB bandwidth plus a programmable divider

3-10 GHz UWB receiver paper from Texas A&M:
Implemented in IBM's 0.25-um SiGe BiCMOS, results of receiver encapsulated in commercial QFN package

Dual-mode Bluetooth/802.11b receiver paper from Texas A&M:
System/architecture considerations and implementation of a dual-mode receiver in 0.25-um SiGe BiCMOS

Systematic way to optimize a CMOS receiver: paper from Texas A&M:
Presents systematic way to distribute the overall CMOS receiver specifications to the individual receiver blocks

RFIC course lecture notes from Texas A&M:
RF receivers, LNA's, mixers, VCO's, PLL's, etc. Good stuff.

Maxim IC App Notes:
Many app notes on wireless IC design and usage

Polar transmitters paper:
Makes the case for polar transmitters for multi-mode transceivers

Receiver Architectures and Signal Processing lecture notes from Tampere University of Technology:
Very good presentations on a variety of receiver topics

Citeseer:
Search over 1 million articles

UWB CMOS receiver front-end paper from UC - San Diego:
UWB heterodyne CMOS receiver front end works from 3.1 to 8.0 GHz fabricated in Jazz' .18 micron.

0.9-mm^2 5.1 GHz transceiver paper from UC - San Diego:
Small-area WLAN transceiver fabricated in IBM's 0.13-micron RF CMOS process

MIT OCW lectures on wireless systems' performance:
Lectures 19 and 20, very good.

Radio Propagation paper from TAPR:
Very good. Free space path loss equations, refraction, diffraction, reflection path loss effects on LOS links, propagation issues in non-LOS links.

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