ISSCC 2006 trends GPS and RFID ready chips

ISSCC 2006 trends GPS and RFID ready chips Ali Fotowat, Ph. D. Managing Director Kavosh. Com Asia R&D Feb 17, 2006 Mi. MOS Malaysia Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 1 Feb 17, 2006

All in one mobile phone solutions are coming Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 2 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 paper 26. 7 Single chip quad band GSM from Infineon Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 3 Feb 17, 2006

Multi-mode challenge!! Start thinking about re-using the blocks Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 4 Feb 17, 2006

Develop new IP’s. If they work & are flexible there will be buyers Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 5 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless UWB Impulse Radio 6. 1 IMEC and Vrije Univ, 3 -5 GHz Rx only, ZIF, LO generation from 3 phases, correlator design, 1. 8 volts/16 m. A, 500 MHz BW 6. 2 NU of Singapore, 3 -5 GHz Tx and Rx, similar DLL correlator, 1. 8 volts, Tx 76 m. W, Rx 81 m. W, ADC 80 m. W, brute force multiple inductor method for bandshaping Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 6 Feb 17, 2006

UWB 3 -5 GHz Impulse Radio from National U of Singapore Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 7 Feb 17, 2006

UWB Impulse Radio from Singapore 3 -5 GHz RF pulse shaping in Tx Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 8 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless UWB Frequency hopped 6. 3 TZero Tech, Sunnyvale, 6. 4 NEC, 6. 5 Infineon, 6. 6 Realtek, Taiwan & Irvine, 6. 7 Ind. Tech. Research Instit. Taiwan, 3. 1 to 10. 6 GHz, antenna array (Tzero), ZIF, back bias LO offset cancellation method (NEC), broadband LNA with shielded low parasitic cap (NEC), DDS based LO generation (Infineon), frequency plan by single VCO source and frequency division and multiplication for fast hopping, non have the baseband MAC on chip Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 9 Feb 17, 2006

UWB MB-OFDM 3 -10 GHz Synthesizer technique (National Taiwan Univ) Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 10 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless Mobile TV (No new technical material, all standard design but satisfying an emerging market) 33. 1, 33. 2, 33. 3 Broadcom (Athena), Samsung, Microtune, DVB-H RF/Analog, 470 -862 MHz European, 1670 -1675 MHz American standard, 0. 18 um CMOS except for Micro. Tune (0. 35 um Si. Ge Bi. CMOS) about 200 m. W in all cases. 33. 4 Qualcomm, US Media. FLO standard, RF/Analog, 160 m. W 33. 5 Integrant, Korea, T-DMB/DAB and ISDB-T low IF less than 100 m. W Rx chip (RF/Analog) 33. 6 Future Comm, Korea, Streaming DMB 2. 6 GHz Rx chip with diversity antenna Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 11 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless Wi. Lan/Wi. Pan 20. 1, 20. 2, 20. 3 Intel, Atheros, Analog Devices, 2 x 2 MIMO (Intel), 11 a/b/g single RF/Analog chip (only Atheros is full So. C), ZIF (Intel and Analog Devices), double conversion 2/3 1/3 method (Atheros) 20. 4 Broadcom, A linear direct conversion transmitter with I/Q calibration. They are describing what I patented in 2002! 11. 9 Pohang U (Korea), Cal. Tech, 260 m. W output, 2. 4 GHz with a new on chip transformer using 2 nd harmonic notch filters. 26. 9 UC Berkeley, 1. 5 Watts , 1. 7 GHz CMOS RF Doherty power amplifier Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 12 Feb 17, 2006

The new exciting world of MIMO. Intel’s 2 x 2 with 3 d. B less RF power shows 6 d. B better EVM and doubles the throughput Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 13 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless sensor networks 20. 5 UC Berkeley, Extreme low power 2. 4 GHz Tx, Rx and VCO each less than 1 m. W, back-gate coupling for Quad VCO, LNA plus low power switching mixer, ZIF 20. 6 Atmel, Zig. Bee 2. 4 GHz 0. 18 um CMOS, low IF design (2 MHz IF), 3 d. Bm Tx output, -102 d. Bm sensitivity. 20. 7 Matsushita, 430 MHz ISM band low date rate, SOC use 4 level FSK for 2. 4 kbits/Sec, 13 d. Bm Tx output, -120 d. Bm sensitivity 20. 8 U of Michigan, A super-regenerative Rx coupled with a synthesizer has frequency selectivity. Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 14 Feb 17, 2006

UC Berkeley wireless sensor network extremely low power circuits draw less than 1 m. W each. Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 15 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless Meet the future automotive radars 10. 1, 10. 2 Cal. Tech, 77 GHz 4 on-chip Rx and 4 onchip Tx antennas, beam steering, double conversion 77 GHz to 26 GHz (Remember above 26 GHz L’s and C’s and transmission lines are all available) 10. 3 IBM, 60 GHz Tx and Rx, double conversion 60 GHz to 8. 5 GHz, no on chip antenna, image reject LNA (no a big deal with all the available passives) 10. 4 National Taiwan U, 60 GHz Transmitter with onchip antenna, about 5 d. Bm unsaturated output power Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 16 Feb 17, 2006

Cal. Tech 77 GHz single chip with 8 antennas for beam stearing Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 17 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless Digitally controlled Oscillators We need broad band Oscillators, Varactors are nonlinear and generate phase noise, use small varactors for fine tuning range, use MIM caps for coarse tuning, use thermometer coding digital control of the VCO frequency and the best choice of overlapping ranges 10. 5 Infineon, 9. 87 to 10. 92 GHz VCO 11. 10 U of Linz (Austria), 1. 7 to 2. 2 GHz 11. 1 Fujitsu, 1. 8 GHz to 3. 3 GHz, you know the frequency you want, you know all the possibilities, use digital algorithm to be there quickly. 11. 7 Chinese Academy of Sciences, almost the same but for a ring Osc. Set the needed delays digitally, change 200 u. Sec hop settling to 2 -3 u. Sec. Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 18 Feb 17, 2006

DCO concept, wide frequency range, low phase noise, process variation tolerance (This one from Fujitsu) Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 19 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless Circuit techniques from universities 6. 8 UCSD, 3 -8 GHz fast tunable UWB 3 D LNA 11. 5 Intel? , 5 GHz R feedback LNA (Academic value) 11. 6 Virginia Tech, 3 -5 GHz UWB LNA with better miller effect modeling 17. 8 National Taiwan U, 54 GHz 3 stage LNA 11. 8 Cal. Tech, Broadband low frequency to 77 GHz onchip combiner (funnel) 17. 6 Cornell Univ, MEMs on chip filter, 425 MHz center frequency, 1 MHz wide (Q = 400) 17. 7 CSEM Switzerland, On chip BAW filter with 2. 5 GHz center frequency and 120 MHz BW (Q = 20) Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 20 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 Wireless Circuit techniques from universities 11. 2 Tech U Denmark, VCO with better phase noise 11. 3 UCLA, Quad LC VCO with less phase noise 11. 4 Hong Kong U. , Quad LC VCO with transformer coupling 17. 4 UCLA, Q 60 GHz VCO with on-chip quarter wave resonator 17. 5 LAAS, CNRS France, 5 GHz VCO with film bulk acoustic wave resonator (FBAR) And even more ideas but less significant in sessions 25 and 32 Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 21 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) Other key RF 26. 7 Infineon, Single chip GSM, ZIF, Quad band, have solved coupling issues from base band digital to RF VCO with capacitive blocking and shielding 26. 8 Atheros, Single chip PHS, ZIF, nothing to it, I was almost crying, I had 3 years time! 26. 1 U of Pavia, A low voltage 750 m. V ZIF GSM front end with CMFB for improved ip 2 26. 4 Hitachi, Wideband image rejection for low IF circuits depends on digital G and measurements and correction circuits can improve image rejection to 50 d. B good for a GSM low IF design. Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 22 Feb 17, 2006

Single chip PHS from Atheros. This could have been mine in 2004 Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 23 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) Other key RF 26. 6 UCLA, Most probably the best paper with a tutorial on it before ISSCC. The key solution to software radio RF front-end design, broadband LNA, use 6 phase instead of 4 phase switching mixer for low harmonics, use reconfigurable switch -cap Sinc function decimation filters to gradually reduce sampling rate and filter at the same time without aliasing 26. 10 Helsinki U, The alternative to the decimation filters above uses modulator to 84 d. B base-band dynamic range for GSM and 50 d. B for WCDMA Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 24 Feb 17, 2006

For multi-band software radio use high rate sampling, filter, decimate and so on. Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 25 Feb 17, 2006

Wideband single-ended to differential LNA, uses common source and common gate amplifiers with some gain control Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 26 Feb 17, 2006

Six phase mixing uses the improved switching performance of nanometer devices while solving the harmonic generation issues Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 27 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) Other key RF 26. 5 UCSD, 1. 8 GHz spur cancelled fractional N synthesizer, with an additional loop the obviously known nature of spurs can be negatively subtracted before the loop filter 19. 5 RF Domus Interesting canonically reduced topology Gm-C filter Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 28 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) RFID (Print Organic RFID’s, not yet!) 15. 1 Poly IC (Infineon spin-off), Organic diode, organic inverter, rectify, make ring Osc. Go and back-scatter 15. 2 Philips Research Eindhoven, A working tag at 125 KHz, rectifier works at higher frequencies, large printable devices, scratchable, electrically unstable with time. Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 29 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) RFID (Serious state of the art) 17. 1 Hitachi’s new Mu. Chip, Now 0. 15 mm x 0. 15 mm with 7. 5 um thickness on Si on Insulator technology, use active body bias to reduce threshold voltages, only 40% cost reduction, 48 cm distance, 128 bit simple ROM, mounting cost is now bigger than chip cost. 17. 2 Fujitsu, A ISO-18000 -6, 0. 35 um Fe. RAM CMOS technology, 1. 23 mm x 1. 5 mm die size, use loose RF power in the air to charge Vth of devices! Four meters distance for 4 Watts directed EIRP, 129 tags/Sec R/W operation Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 30 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) RFID (Serious state of the art) 17. 3 CEA-LETI France, 13. 56 MHz RFID, combines rectifier and demodulator using modulator to save power, increases throughput to 3. 4 Mbits/Sec. Many ambiguities in the paper! Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 31 Feb 17, 2006

Fujitsu tag. Some good ideas, but ours are even better. Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 32 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) GPS 26. 2 U of Pavia, 1. 2 volts, 4. 5 m. A stacked LNA, Mixer, VCO front end for GPS, no IF filter and output driver. 26. 3 RF Domus, A 20 m. W, 3. 2 mm 2 GPS RF, more expensive Si. Ge Bi. CMOS technology, can withstand GSM Tx blockers with external LNA!, fractional N synthesizer for any available Xtal LO source, non-flat IF spectrum!, unnecessary additional Quad loop for image rejection!, 4 MHz IF like ours Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 33 Feb 17, 2006

ISSCC 2006 (Wireless) GPS chip leaves a lot to be desired. Ours is better and cheaper Kavosh. Com Asia R&D 34 Feb 17, 2006