RF Microelectronics

Chapter 4. Transceiver Architectures

With the understanding developed in previous chapters of RF design and communication principles, we are now prepared to move down to the transceiver architecture level. The choice of an architecture is determined by not only the RF performance that it can provide but other parameters such as complexity, cost, power dissipation, and the number of external components. In the past ten years, it has become clear that high levels of integration improve the system performance along all of these axes. It has also become clear that architecture design and circuit design are inextricably linked, requiring iterations between the two. The outline of the chapter is shown below.

4.1 General Considerations

The wireless ...