Joy Laskar & Babak Matinpour 
Modern Receiver Front-Ends 
Systems, Circuits, and Integration

Architectures BABAK MATINPOUR and JOY LASKAR

* Describes the actual implementation of receiver architectures
from the initial design to an IC-based product

* Presents many tricks-of-the-trade not usually covered in
textbooks

* Covers a range of practical issues including semiconductor
technology selection, cost versus performance, yield, packaging,
prototype development, testing, and analysis

* Discusses architectures that are employed in modern broadband
wireless systems

关于作者

JOY LASKAR, Ph D, is the Joseph M. Pettit Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. He is the author of over 200 technical papers and has
fifteen patents pending. Professor Laskar has also received
numerous awards for his work, including the Army Research Office’s
Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation’s CAREER
Award, and the IEEE Rappaport Award. He is Director of the Georgia
Electronic Design Center (GEDC).

BABAK MATINPOUR, Ph D, is the cofounder and vice president
of VT Silicon Inc., a fables wireless start-up developing next
generation Ics for 3G mobile phones. Dr. Matinpour has published
over twenty IEEE papers and presented several invited talks on Ga As
and Si Ge RF ICs.

SUDIPTO CHAKRABORTY, Ph D, is a senior research engineer
in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, where he is involved in
analysis, design, and characterization of advanced wired and
wireless circuits and systems towards advanced communication
technologies using silicon-based processes. Dr. Chakraborty has
authored or coauthored over thirty technical articles, presented
several invited talks in the area of integrated transceiver design,
and has two patents pending.