A fully comprehensive reference combining digital communications and RFIC (Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits) in one complete volume There are many books which focus on the physical implementation of the RF/analog part of transceivers, such as the CMOS design, or the signal processing involved in digital communications. However, there is little material dedicated to transceiver architecture and system design. Similarly, much of the existing literature looks at concepts useful for dimensioning, yet offers little practical information on how to proceed for dimensioning a line-up from scratch, and on the reasons for proceeding that way. This book redresses the balance by explaining the architecture of transceivers and their dimensioning from the perspective of a RFIC architect from within industry. It bridges the gap between digital communication systems and radiofrequency integrated circuit design, covering wireless transceiver architecture and system design from both system level and circuit designer aspects. • Covers digital communication theory, electromagnetism theory and wireless networks organization, from theories to implementation, for deriving the minimum set of constraints to be fulfilled by transceivers • Details the limitations in the physical implementation of transceivers to be considered for their dimensioning, in terms of noise, nonlinearity, and RF impairments • Presents transceiver architecture and system design in terms of transceivers budgets, transceivers architectures, and algorithms for transceivers

Table of Contents:
Foreword ix Glossary xiv I Somewhere between Maxwell and Shannon 1 Chapter 1. The digital communications point of view 3 1.1 Bandpass signal representation 4 1.2 Bandpass noise representation 36 1.3 Digital modulations examples 48 1.4 First transceivers architecture 73 Chapter 2. The Electromagnetism point of view 79 2.1 Free space radiation 79 2.2 Conducted propagation 107 2.3 The propagation channel 126 Chapter 3. The wireless standards point of view 161 3.1 Medium access strategies 161 3.2 Metrics for transmitters 169 3.3 Metrics for receivers 187 II Implementation limitations 205 Chapter 4. Noise 207 4.1 Analogue electronic noises 208 4.2 Noisy devices characterization 211 4.3 LO phase noise 259 4.4 Linear EVM 294 4.5 Quantization noise 298 4.6 Analogue vs. digital worlds conversions 322 Chapter 5. Nonlinearity 345 5.1 Smooth AM-AM conversion 346 5.2 Hard AM-AM conversion 440 5.3 AM-PM conversion, memory effect 449 5.4 Baseband devices 464 Chapter 6. RF Impairments 467 6.1 Frequency conversion 468 6.2 Gain and phase imbalance 489 6.3 Mixers implementation 508 6.4 Frequency planning 540 6.5 DC offset, LO leakage 548 III Transceivers dimensioning  553 Chapter 7. Transceivers budgets 555 7.1 Considered transceiver architecture 556 7.2 Budgeting a transmitter 557 7.3 Budgeting a receiver 599 Chapter 8. Transceivers architectures 661 8.1 Transmitters 661 8.2 Receivers 717 Chapter 9. Algorithms for transceivers 735 9.1 Transmit side 735 9.2 Receive side 774 Appendix 1. Correlations 799 Appendix 2. Stationarity 809 Appendix 3. Moments of normal random vectors 815 Bibliography 821 Index 829