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RFIC power consumption as a function of frequency, bandwidth and modulation
Jan 07th, 2011, 12:21pm
 
Does anyone know a link that shows the effect of frequency, bandwidth
and modulation  on the power consumption of the RFIC?
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Re: RFIC power consumption as a function of frequency, bandwidth and modulation
Reply #1 - Jan 9th, 2011, 1:56pm
 
While your question is a good one, it is very difficult to answer quantitatively because there is no "simple" link between the parameters you listed.

Power consumption versus frequency is technology dependent. Faster processes tend to reduce power consumption high frequencies. At low frequencies a slow and fast technology might provide nearly equivalent performance, so the fast technology isn't necessary for lower frequency applications.

Bandwidth has a similar relation because most integrated filters use feedback circuits with op-amps whose bandwidth depends on the technology.

Modulation most clearly impacts power consumption when amplitude modulation is used. Amplitude modulation requires circuits of some acceptable linearity that, in turn, impacts the power consumption.

I am being vague and general because discussion of these topics become very "application specific" very quickly.
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Reply #2 - Jan 9th, 2011, 10:12pm
 
Thanks for this good information. However, am wondering if you have a reference to that information.
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Reply #3 - Jan 10th, 2011, 3:09am
 
A couple of references that come to mind are ...

L.E. Larson, "Silicon technology tradeoffs for radio-frequency/mixed-signal "systems-on-a-chip"," Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on , vol.50, no.3, pp. 683- 699, March 2003
doi: 10.1109/TED.2003.810482


Dickson, T.O.; Yau, K.H.K.; Chalvatzis, T.; Mangan, A.M.; Laskin, E.; Beerkens, R.; Westergaard, P.; Tazlauanu, M.; Ming-Ta Yang; Voinigescu, S.P.; , "The Invariance of Characteristic Current Densities in Nanoscale MOSFETs and Its Impact on Algorithmic Design Methodologies and Design Porting of Si(Ge) (Bi)CMOS High-Speed Building Blocks," Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of , vol.41, no.8, pp.1830-1845, Aug. 2006

Bennett, H.S.; Brederlow, R.; Costa, J.C.; Cottrell, P.E.; Huang, W.M.; Immorlica, A.A., Jr.; Mueller, J.-E.; Racanelli, M.; Shichijo, H.; Weitzel, C.E.; Bin Zhao; , "Device and technology evolution for Si-based RF integrated circuits," Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on , vol.52, no.7, pp. 1235- 1258, July 2005

The last paper talks some about the ITRS roadmap that is driving some of the performance improvements in key integrated technologies specifically for analog/RF mixed signal circuits. So, there is industry awareness of the trends and performance dependencies between communication circuits and device technology.

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Reply #4 - Jan 12th, 2011, 2:08am
 
Thanks very much for the references. Do you apparently also have some references connecting the RFIC power consumption to the modulation and bandwidth?
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Re: RFIC power consumption as a function of frequency, bandwidth and modulation
Reply #5 - Jan 22nd, 2011, 12:40pm
 
Also being left out of the equation:

Noise (input referred)
and
Linearity.

Better linearity and noise generally implies higher power consumption. The question you are asking has a dozen or more variable in play, so its tough to answer.
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