The physics Behind Electronics

by Iván Vidal (Author), Ignacio Soto (Author), Albert Banchs (Author), Jaime Garcia-Reinoso (Author), Ivan Lozano (Author), Gonzalo Camarillo (Author)
This practical resource provides a survey on the technologies, protocols, and architectures that are widely used in practice to implement networked multimedia services

When basic researchers started working on semiconductors during the late nineteen thirties and on integrated circuits at the end of the nineteen fifties, they did not know that their work would change the lives of future generations. Very few people at that time recognized the significance of, perhaps, the most important invention of the century. Historians have assigned the invention of integrated circuits to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.

This book explains concepts behind fractional subsampling-based frequency synthesis that is re-shaping today’s art in the field of low-noise LO generation. It covers advanced material, giving clear guidance for development of background-calibrated environments capable of spur-free synthesis and wideband phase modulation. It further expands the concepts into the field of subsampling polar transmission, where the newly developed architecture enables unprecedented spectral efficiency levels, unquestionably required by the upcoming generation of wireless standards.