Smart front-ends, from vision to design

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Roermund, H.M. van

Baltus, P.

Bezooijen, A. van

Hegt, J.A.

Lopelli, E.

Mahmoudi, R.

Radulov, G.I.

Vidojkovic, M.
An integral multi-disciplinary chain optimization based on a high-level cascaded Shannon-based channel modeling is proposed. It is argued that the analog part of the front-end (FE) will become a bottleneck in the overall chain. This requires a FE-centric design approach, aiming for maximizing the effective data capacity, and for an optimal exploitation of this capacity for given power dissipation. At high level, this asks for a new view on the so-called client-server relations in the chain. To substantiate this vision, some examples of research projects in our group are addressed. These include FE-driven transmission schemes, duty-cycled operation with wake-up radio, programmable FEs, smart antenna-FE combinations, smart and flexible converters, and smart pre and post correction. Copyright © 2009 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
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Data convertersFront-endMixed-signalProgrammableShannonSmartChannel modelingClient serverData capacityData converterDesign approachesMixed signalMulti-disciplinaryOptimal exploitationPower dissipationTransmission schemesWake-up radioRadio broadcastingRadio transmissionSmart antennasOptimization
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461626
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ISSN
09168524
Source
IEICE Transactions on Electronics, E92-C(6), pp. 747-756.
Pages
747-756
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