ISSCC2025 Short Course -Advances in Wireless and RF Transceiver Circuit

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Introduction
The interconnectedness of our world is enabled in no small part by advances indesign for RF communications – the application of CMOS to radiofrequency designproblems has revolutionized all aspects of wireless communication. This progress,driven by the phenomenal growth in demand for expanded communicationcapabilities, has been enabled by innovation in circuits and systems, resulting in theexceptionally capable radio systems in use today. Looking forward, emergingtechniques for multi-antenna systems, receivers, and transmitters promise furtherextension of the abilities of such systems. In this short course, we start with adiscussion of the evolution of CMOS radio architectures, including an introductionto the critical design considerations associated with modern RF systems. In thesecond lecture, we consider multi-antenna radio systems, including approaches forMIMO and phased array designs. In the third lecture, we consider receiver elements,focusing on mixer-first and N-path architectures, applications, and researchdirections. In the final talk, we consider transmitter elements, focusing on poweramplifiers and emerging digitally assisted transmitter architectures.


SC1: Evolution of CMOS Radio ArchitecturesBehzad Razavi, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
SC2: Multi-Antenna Radio Systems: MIMO and Phased ArraysArun Natarajan, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
SC3: Mixer-First and N-Path Architectures, Applications,and Research DirectionsBram Nauta, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
SC4: Transmitters: Power Amplifiers and Digitally Assisted RFMorteza Alavi, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

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