This project investigates circuit design strategies, signal processing techniques, and innovative system architectures to feasibly realize high-performance 5G transceivers while considering power consumption, complexity, and cost.
Targeted objectives:
- design radio-frequency integrated circuits using deep-submicron semiconductor processes
- devise signal processing schemes and analytical models to counteract hardware limitations and improve the performance of massive, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transceivers
- implement transceiver functions such as beamforming, self-calibration, and linearization using mixed-signal circuitry
Project personnel are expected to develop theoretical knowledge of transmitter architectures, sub-systems and operations, integrated circuit characteristics (including electromagnetic behavior), and digital signal processing for communication.
They are also expected to develop practical competencies in:
- simulation, design, and layout of integrated circuits using electronic design automation tools and mathematical computation tools
- testing and measurement of discrete or integrated circuit prototypes using arbitrary waveform generators, digitizers, and the probe station