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All-CMOS radio transceivers and systems-on-a-chip are
rapidly making inroads on a wireless market that for
years was dominated by bipolar and BiCMOS solutions.
It is not a matter of replacing bipolar transistors
in known circuit topologies with FETs; the wave of RF
CMOS brings with it new architectures and unprecedented
levels of integration. What are its origins? What is
the commercial impact? How will RF CMOS evolve in the
future? This paper offers a retrospective and a perspective.
Biography
Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree from
Imperial College, London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University
of California, Berkeley in 1978 and 1981. He was at
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984
as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development
Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been at the Electrical
Engineering Department of the University of California,
Los Angeles where he is Professor. He was a Visiting
Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories during
1989. His research interests are in CMOS RF design,
high-speed analog integrated circuit design, data conversion,
and other techniques of analog signal processing.
Dr. Abidi served as the Program Secretary for the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990, and
as General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits
in 1992. He was Secretary of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits
Council from 1990 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1995 he
was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
He has received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching
and the 1997 IEEE Donald G. Fink Award, and is co-recipient
of the Best Paper Award at the 1995 European Solid-State
Circuits Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper
Award at the 1996 International Solid-State Circuits
Conference (ISSCC), the Jack Raper Award for Outstanding
Technology Directions Paper at the 1997 ISSCC, the Design
Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation Conference,
an Honorable Mention at the 2000 Design Automation Conference,
and the 2001 ISLPED Low Power Design Contest Award.
Dr. Abidi received an IEEE Millennium Medal, he is a
Fellow of the IEEE, and he was named one of the top
ten contributors to the ISSCC.
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