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The global smartphone shipments has reached more than 1.4 billion units each year and is one of the main driving engine behind semiconductor industry. The transition from 3G/4G to 5G is expected to bring higher data rates, low latency and new user applications in areas such as traffic safety, control and industrial application. These new applications will require faster multi-connectivity for smar...Show More
The explosive growth and adoption of smartphones provides access to voice and data for billions of people worldwide today and connected devices are expect to reach 5.6 billion in 2020. This growth has been and continues to be the engine for semiconductor industry due to required computational power of CMOS technology in lower feature nodes as FinFet 7nm/14nm for application processors, modems and ...Show More
The RF front-end module integrated with the antenna array is one of the key components in the system of 5G millimeter-wave communication, while helps to effectively reduces the insertion loss and circuit size. However, most of them are designed or assembled together which reduces the maintainability of the systems. This work presents a design of miniaturized RF front-end module integrated with ant...Show More
This paper presents a highly integrated low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) RF front-end module (FEM) for cellular/GPS/PCS applications. First, a triplexer composed of two diplexers and a GPS SAW filter has been implemented. Measured results of the triplexer are summarized and compared with simulated results. Next, a cellular SAW duplexer has been integrated into the triplexer with a PI networ...Show More
This work reports a monolithically integrated filter and RF front-end module architecture on 200-mm 7SWTSOI RFSOI technology. Multiple bulk acoustic wave (BAW) and Lamb wave filters are vertically integrated to RFSOI switches to demonstrate a variety of RF front-end modules. Vertical integration enables higher-density modules with reduced footprint and minimum impact in the electrical performance ...Show More
This paper presents a compact GPS/BT/WiFi triple-band triple-mode RF front-end module (FEM) with Si-based embedded actives and LTCC-based embedded passives. The proposed RF FEM consists of a triplexer, baluns, matching circuits in the LTCC substrate, and a PA, an LNA, a SAW filter on the LTCC substrate. Furthermore, the proposed FEM has a silicon module on top of the LTCC substrate in which three ...Show More
In this study, a miniature and high performance RF front-end module based on liquid crystal polymer (LCP) substrate is presented. The module consists of microstrip low pass filter (LPF) and low noise amplifier (LNA). The LPF with high rejection is directly fabricated on the LCP substrate, and LNA is mounted on the surface of LCP substrate cavity. The novelty of the proposed module is that it can r...Show More
Worldwide adoption of 4G LTE smartphones and the actual transition to 5G is the main driving engine for semiconductor industry. 5G is expected to reach high data rate speed (1Gbps) and low latency (less than 1ms). 5G will require more RF bandwidth and therefore an increase in the number of components such as SOI switches, acoustic filters and power amplifiers integrated in few RF front end modules...Show More
RF front end modules (FEMs) are currently realized using a variety of technologies. However, since integration drives wireless business in order to achieve the appropriate cost and form factor, we see significant research concerning FEM integration on silicon. In this quest, SOI technology has already addressed two key blocks, the antenna switch and the power amplifier. In this paper, we will focu...Show More
In this work, a four-channel RF receiving front-end module is developed in multilayer low-temperature co-fired ceramic for satellite communication with the operating frequency band of 17.7~20.2 GHz. The dies of low noise amplifiers, phase shifters, attenuators and series-to-parallel convertors are integrated within the volume of 28×28×1.25 mm3, together with an embedded power combiner and lowpass ...Show More
As the most front-end part of the frequency conversion system, the RF front-end module undertakes the function of amplifying the RF signal. The RF front-end part includes the self-checking power dividing function. The self-checking power dividing function is to divide the self-checking signal into each channel and provide the self-checking signal for each channel. In this paper, by selecting the i...Show More
This paper presents a 2-5 GHz mMIMO RF front-end module that includes an RF switch followed by two stages of low-noise amplifiers (LNA). The switch and LNAs are designed in 0.25um GaAs technology as two ICs, placed in a multi-chip module (MCM) and housed in a LGA package. The FEM achieves 47 dBm peak power handling in failsafe (FS)/TX mode, 1.35 dB noise figure, 31.5 dBm OIP3 and 17 dBm P1dB at 3....Show More
Certainly one of the key factors in the manufacture of multichip modules (MCM) is the verification and fault diagnosis of an MCM's structural interconnects. High performance MCM products, which are clearly an expensive technology, will incur additional costs unless appropriate diagnostic tools are made available for fast failure analysis during production test. Boundary scan implementation is key ...Show More
This paper describes a design for a front-end module to receive satellite DMB service. The front-end module designed in this study is a planar structure that is easy to install on the rooftop of a car and is compact in size. In addition, it can be applied to certain commercial models because it has low noise and high gain characteristics. The impedance bandwidth of antenna is 7.04 % (186 MHz), and...Show More
RF front end modules (FEMs) are currently realized using a variety of technologies. However, since integration drives wireless business in order to achieve the appropriate cost and form factor, CMOS Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) has emerged over the past few years as the dominant technology for RF switches in RF FEMs for cell phones and WiFi [1]. While current performances available on RF SOI technol...Show More
This work presents an embedded matching scheme on the multilayer print circuit board (PCB) for film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) filters with wafer-level chip-scale package (WL-CSP), which are widely used in front-end modules (FEMs) for mobile communication. The matching inductors connected in parallel to ground with different inductance are designed and integrated into the middle layer of PCB. ...Show More
This paper mainly studies a high-voltage DC circuit breaker monitoring and control system, which includes a microprocessor and an alarm system. The inlet of the microprocessor is electrically connected to the output of the monitoring module, and the electrical properties of the inlet of the monitoring module are connected to The input end of the input module, the inlet end of the microprocessor is...Show More
Car electrification is disrupting the high power applications in the automotive market but is also strongly affecting the grid infrastructure because of charging points needs. This paper deals with the analysis of front end converters in high power battery chargers operated with high frequency operations enabled by Silicon Carbide technology.Show More
This paper proposes the design of various end effectors for first aid robots. There is a growing demand for special robots that perform rescue operations on behalf of people for rescue in dangerous areas such as disasters or wars. In addition, when injuries occur, first aid treatment is also necessary. In this paper, we design user and system requirements for robots performing first aid and propos...Show More
In this paper, an S-band RF front-end (RF-FE) module for satellite communication ground applications is presented. The module integrates a novel embedded low pass filter based on transmission zero technique, embedded power and control lines and is realized using low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) process in a compact package. By integrating the miniature embedded filter & 3D routing using the...Show More
This paper presents an analysis of the field performances of south-facing vertical solar module in Nis, Serbia is presented. Electrical parameters, backside temperature and weather parameters were continuously measured and 12 sunny days, predominantly occurring in the middle of each month throughout the year, were selected. The daily change of the solar radiation intensity, maximum power, module t...Show More
With explosive band proliferation as well the use of carrier aggregation (CA), multiple input multiple output (MIMO) techniques and 5G, research in the area of improving the cost, performance and the size of RF transmit solutions is very active with many developments over the past few years. The proliferation of worldwide smartphones has been in part possible due to increase computational power of...Show More
A compact 7 times 8 times 1.1 mm3 dual-band Wireless LAN front-end module (FEM) having high linearity and wide temperature (-40 to 85degC) and voltage (2.7 to 4.5 V) operating ranges is presented. The FEM features 28 dB gain and 19.8 dBm at 54 Mbps with EVM < 3% and 230 mA for 2.4 to 2.5 GHz. For 4.9 to 5.9 GHz, the FEM delivers 25 dB gain and 16.5 dBm linear output power at 54 Mbps with EVM < 3% ...Show More
This standard is an extension to IEEE Std 1703(TM). Physical hardware interfaces and signals, such as logical interface and power (digital and mains), that link metrology devices to communications modules via the USB physical layer are specified in this standard. The communication module described in this standard is not integral (not on the same circuit board) with the metrology registers (circui...Show More