On-chip data communication is an active research area, as interconnects are rapidly becoming a speed, power and reliability bottleneck for digital CMOS systems. In this thesis, interconnects are analyzed and techniques and circuits are discussed that can improve their behavior for data communication
There is an increasing demand for wideband receiver frontends. This is due to the emerge of wideband wireless standards (UWB) and due to the desire for flexible radios (SDR), which can comply with multiple existing and future communication standards. Existing receiver topologies are generally narro
There has been a growing demand for wireless communications and diverse communication standards have been developed. A software-defined radio (SDR) consists of radio hardware which is programmable by software to support many standards and even emerging ones. Several technical challenges exist to rea
The body of this thesis (chapters 3,4 and 5) deals with the analysis and improvement of a specific class of voltage- or current controlled oscillators (VCO’s respectively CCO’s) called relaxation oscillators. Before going into detail on this particular class of oscillators, first the function and ap
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