Wireless-industry scientific papers to be presented at conference

Throughout the event, scheduled for 22^nd to 26^th February, in San Francisco, imec and Holst Centre will issue several press releases showcasing breakthrough results in various research domains applicable to the conference.

Among imec’s research highlights presented at ISSCC2015 are the world’s lowest power PAN (Personal Area Network) radio, developed together with Renesas, and an electrical‑balance duplexer achieving state-of-the-art linearity and insertion loss performance in IBM 0.18µm RF CMOS SOI process realised in collaboration with Murata and HiSilicon. Such reconfigurable duplexers are key building blocks for front-end modules in next-generation communication systems.

Another highlight is a 79GHz binary phase-modulated continuous-wave radar transceiver with TX-to-RX spillover cancellation in 28nm CMOS (developed together with Panasonic), and a flexible thin-film NFC tag powered by a commercial USB reader device at 13.56MHz.

“Imec has served as a primary research partner for companies around the globe, leading in the development of advanced solutions for next generation mobile, 5G, 60GHz mobile backhaul reconfigurable radio, mm-wave radar, and ultra-low power wireless sensor networks for a connected and sustainable world,” stated Harmke De Groot, Department Director, Wireless Technologies, imec/Holst Centre. “ISSCC is recognised as one of the major conferences in our field, and we are proud to showcase our recent work and be involved in the technical education component. It is a confirmation of imec’s achievements and the relevance of our research in pushing the technology limits toward higher performance, lower power consumption and smaller form factor.”

For a full list of imec presentations at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, click here.