Design and Implementation of a Highly-Integrated Low-Power CMOS Frequency Synthesizer for an Indoor Wireless Wideband_CDMA Direct Conversion Receiver

Chinh H. Doan M.S. 2000

(advisor: Robert Brodersen).

The recent expansion in wireless communications market has spawned many new and challenging problems. Portable devices intended for consumer use impose the need for affordability, low power consumption, and small form factor. Furthermore, the bandwidth requirement for individual users has increased substaintially, driven by the desire for ubiquitous access to digital multimedia applications and the content-rich internet. With the continual progress in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) scaling providing exponential improvements in transistor performance and speed, a highly-integrated radio-frequency (RF) CMOS solution is not only feasible, but also practical.