Xiong, Botao (2017)
Digitally assisted analog electronics: trade-offs and applications on mixed signal and RF front-ends.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Dissertation, Erstveröffentlichung
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)
The development of integrated circuits has been governed by Moore's law for several decades. Through continuous advancements in CMOS technology, the industry has maintained exponential progress rates in transistor miniaturization and integration density. However, this technology scaling trend is only conditionally beneficial for analog circuit performance. Compared with the analog circuits, digital circuits are cheaper, faster, more complex, and more power efficient. Due to these reasons, the researchers are undertaking a paradigm shift from high performance analog circuits to digitally assisted analog circuits. Adaptive impedance matching techniques are attractive because they provide resilience to antenna impedance variation caused by body-effects and several other reasons. In principle, they can preserve maximum radiated power, power amplifier linearity, receiver sensitivity, and power efficiency of a mobile phone simultaneously. However, achieving proper adaptive impedance control over a large impedance region is a challenge. Recent analog and RF circuits are increasing performance and efficiency with the aid of digital technology. To apply this technique to a reconfigurable antenna system, a fully integrated micro-controller based on AMS H35 technology has been designed. Digital calibration blocks wrapped around an analog core are capable of performing dead time and impedance matching schemes. Therefore, the intelligence and robustness of the system are improved significantly. Furthermore, compared with S11 controller (18.8mm2, 186mW), the silicon area of the digitally assisted circuit (4mm2, 62mW) is acceptable. In addition, this dissertation presents a set of convergence criteria for the tunable matching network, which leads to the finding of matching point with high probability. Furthermore, to accelerate the convergence speed, the binary search tuning algorithm has been proposed. In contrast to the single step method, the tuning speed is improved from O(N) to O(log(N)).
Typ des Eintrags: | Dissertation | ||||
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Erschienen: | 2017 | ||||
Autor(en): | Xiong, Botao | ||||
Art des Eintrags: | Erstveröffentlichung | ||||
Titel: | Digitally assisted analog electronics: trade-offs and applications on mixed signal and RF front-ends | ||||
Sprache: | Englisch | ||||
Referenten: | Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Klaus ; Hollstein, Prof. Dr. Thomas | ||||
Publikationsjahr: | 23 Januar 2017 | ||||
Ort: | Darmstadt | ||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: | 8 Mai 2017 | ||||
URL / URN: | http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/6288 | ||||
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract): | The development of integrated circuits has been governed by Moore's law for several decades. Through continuous advancements in CMOS technology, the industry has maintained exponential progress rates in transistor miniaturization and integration density. However, this technology scaling trend is only conditionally beneficial for analog circuit performance. Compared with the analog circuits, digital circuits are cheaper, faster, more complex, and more power efficient. Due to these reasons, the researchers are undertaking a paradigm shift from high performance analog circuits to digitally assisted analog circuits. Adaptive impedance matching techniques are attractive because they provide resilience to antenna impedance variation caused by body-effects and several other reasons. In principle, they can preserve maximum radiated power, power amplifier linearity, receiver sensitivity, and power efficiency of a mobile phone simultaneously. However, achieving proper adaptive impedance control over a large impedance region is a challenge. Recent analog and RF circuits are increasing performance and efficiency with the aid of digital technology. To apply this technique to a reconfigurable antenna system, a fully integrated micro-controller based on AMS H35 technology has been designed. Digital calibration blocks wrapped around an analog core are capable of performing dead time and impedance matching schemes. Therefore, the intelligence and robustness of the system are improved significantly. Furthermore, compared with S11 controller (18.8mm2, 186mW), the silicon area of the digitally assisted circuit (4mm2, 62mW) is acceptable. In addition, this dissertation presents a set of convergence criteria for the tunable matching network, which leads to the finding of matching point with high probability. Furthermore, to accelerate the convergence speed, the binary search tuning algorithm has been proposed. In contrast to the single step method, the tuning speed is improved from O(N) to O(log(N)). |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-62885 | ||||
Sachgruppe der Dewey Dezimalklassifikatin (DDC): | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau | ||||
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): | 18 Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik > Institut für Datentechnik > Integrierte Elektronische Systeme (IES) 18 Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik > Institut für Datentechnik 18 Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik |
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Hinterlegungsdatum: | 11 Jun 2017 19:55 | ||||
Letzte Änderung: | 11 Jun 2017 19:55 | ||||
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Referenten: | Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Klaus ; Hollstein, Prof. Dr. Thomas | ||||
Datum der mündlichen Prüfung / Verteidigung / mdl. Prüfung: | 8 Mai 2017 | ||||
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