Key Skills
Key design skills have been established in following areas:
- RF system design for 60 GHz WPAN
- RF transceivers for portable Software Defined Radio
- Radio requirements for cellular standards
(GSM, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA2000, LTE) - RF transceiver design
- Behavioural modelling and simulation of advanced radio systems
- Integrated transmitter architectures for GSM, UMTS and LTE:
I/Q up-mix, fractional-N PLL, tapped delay line PLL, LINC, CHIREX - PA efficiency enhancement techniques for multimode transmitters
(slow tracking, envelope tracking, polar modulation etc) - Integrated receiver architectures for DECT, GSM, UMTS and LTE:
zero-IF, low-IF/polyphase, digitisation by ΣΔ modulators, digital filters - Mixed-signal ASICs (CMOS)
- Wideband RF/microwave power amplifiers
- Microwave Integrated Circuits (MICs) and Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) on GaAs for the range 1-40 GHz
- Software development for CAD (circuit and system simulation)
- Direct-frequency synthesisers for radar applications
- Advanced microwave/RF filter design by exact synthesis
- Exact network synthesis techniques, network theory and CAD
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