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| Titles
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CMOS Quadrature Front Ends in a Single-Stage: The LMV Cell
(slides) |
| Speaker
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Dr. Antonio Liscidini
Assistant Professor
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy |
| Day and Time
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be provided
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| Location |
Room BA 1200
Bahen Centre
for Information Technology
University of Toronto - St. George Campus
40 St. George Street map - code BA |
| Organizer
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Solid-State Circuits Chapter |
| Contact
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Dustin Dunwell, E-mail:
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| Abstract
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In this presentation, a new RF front-end receiver topology merging LNA, mixer, and VCO in a single stage is presented. The structure, called the LMV cell, performs RF amplification, mixing, and local oscillator (LO) generation while sharing the same bias current and the same devices among all the blocks of the RF front-end, resulting in a very low-power, small-area solution. In particular this presentation is focused on two different quadrature LMV architectures, one oriented to obtains a good quadrature accuracy and the other to minimized the active area of the design. |
| Biography
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Antonio Liscidini (S'99 M'06) was born in Tirano, Italy, in 1977. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) and PhD. in electrical engineering from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. He was a summer intern at National Semiconductors in 2003 (Santa Clara, CA) studying poly phase filters and CMOS LNA. Currently he is Assistant Professor at the University of Pavia and his research interests are in the implementations of analog RF front-end in CMOS and BiCMOS technology, with particular focus on the analysis and design of LNAs for multistandard applications, ultra low power receivers and digital PLLs. In addition to his academic activities, he has been acting as a consultant for Marvell Semiconductors in the area of integrated circuit design.
He received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE 2005 Symposium on VLSI Circuits. From Dec. 2007, he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs.
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