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Message started by xutailong_2005 on Jan 3^rd, 2008, 5:05pm

Title: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by xutailong_2005 on Jan 3^rd, 2008, 5:05pm

Hi, everyone!
I will be a phd student, I want to study work in RFIC feild. Now I want to know the currently focus of RF IC . If I design a receiver for WLAN, which architecture I should adopt?

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by Stefan on Jan 3^rd, 2008, 5:48pm

To be honest :

Why should you design a WLAN receiver as research project ?
Go and buy one, might be cheaper ...

Or start digging deeper into it, think about new standards or new concepts, not existing ones ...

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by didac on Jan 4^th, 2008, 3:37am

Hi,
Check:
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~brweb/papers/Conferences/BRISCAS2_07.pdf
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/RF/Publication/pubs/Doan_JSSC05.pdf
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/RF/Publication/pubs/Doan_CommMag04.pdf
Hope it helps,

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by xutailong_2005 on Jan 5^th, 2008, 2:25am

I want to become a RF IC designer.

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by didac on Jan 5^th, 2008, 4:47am

Hi,
Welcome to the guild then xutailong_2005, but this means that you don't think mm-wave design it's an interesting topic?,or maybe you consider that RFIC it's limited just in the "low" gigahertz band?Consider that spectrum it's scarce so it's natural that new applications appear at higher frequency, and this was traditionally the realm of compound semiconductors(III-V semiconductors) so I think it's a hot topic for reasearch.

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by loose-electron on Jan 6^th, 2008, 11:41pm

xutailong_2005 wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2008, 5:05pm:

Hi, everyone!
I will be a phd student, I want to study work in RFIC feild. Now I want to know the currently focus of RF IC . If I design a receiver for WLAN, which architecture I should adopt?

find a thesis advisor that you like and get along with well - then find out what they are interested in doing.

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by xutailong_2005 on Jan 9^th, 2008, 12:34am

Hi, didac
Thanks for your good advice, I will communicate with you frequently.

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by didac on Jan 9^th, 2008, 2:17am

Hi xutailong_2005,
You're welcome, feel free to contact if you wish. But take into account that after all it was just my opinion, other people will have other opinions. As loose-electron said you have to got on well with your advisor after all.
Good luck,

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by James Bond on Jan 10^th, 2008, 1:19pm

There are still lots techniques problems need to be solved, even you can figure out the solution, it still need to be low cost, low power, high performance, robust, etc, You can focus on any of them. Any of them can be a research topic for your whole life.

Title: Re: What's the currently focus of RF IC receiver ?
Post by xutailong_2005 on Jan 18^th, 2008, 2:50am

Hi,James Bond,
I'm very glad to see you! thanks a lot for your useful advice. Would you like to introduce yourself? My email is xutailong_2005@yahoo.com.cn.
best regards!