The Impact of On-Chip Interconnections on CMOS RF Integrated Circuits

Achieving power- and area-efficient fully integrated transceivers is one of the major challenges faced when designing high-frequency electronic circuits suitable for biomedical applications or wireless sensor networks. The power losses associated with the parasitics of on-chip inductors, transistors, and interconnections have posed design challenges in the full integration of power-efficient CMOS radio-frequency integrated circuits (RF ICs). In …