Reconfigurable RF CMOS Circuit for Cognitive Radio

Kazuya MASU
Kenichi OKADA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E91-B    No.1    pp.10-13
Publication Date: 2008/01/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.1.10
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sharing Technology)
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Keyword: 
CMOS,  reconfigurable RF circuit,  cognitive radio,  

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Summary: 
Cognitive radio and/or SDR (Software Defined Radio) inherently requires multi-band and multi standard wireless circuit. The circuit is implemented based on Si CMOS technology. In this article, the recent progress of Si RF CMOS is described and the reconfigurable RF CMOS circuit which was proposed by the authors is introduced. At the present and in the future, several kind of Si CMOS technology can be used for RF CMOS circuit implementation. The realistic RF CMOS circuit implementation toward cognitive and/or SDR is discussed.