Quenching the thirst of RF power amps and extending the life of portable devices

Quenching the thirst of RF power amps and extending the life of portable devices

Design of Gate-Driven Quasi Floating Bulk OTA-Based Gm–C Filter for PLL Applications

The advancement in the integrated circuit design has developed the demand for low voltage portable analog devices in the market. This demand has increased the requirement of the low-power RF transceiver. A low-power phase lock loop (PLL) is always desirable to fulfill the need for a low power RF transceiver. This paper deals with the designing of the low power transconductance- capacitance (Gm-...

Design and Simulation of a Clamped-Clamped Micromechanical Beam AM Frequency Mixer-Filter

In the last decade Micromechanical components for communication applications has been fabricated via IC-compatible MEMS technologies. In fact, its most important impact is not at the component level, but rather at the system level, by offering alternative transceiver architectures that reduce power consumption and enhance performance. In this paper a mixer-filter for AM frequency receiver with ...

Low-Area/Low-Power CMOS Op-Amps Design Based on Total Optimality Index Using Reinforcement Learning Approach

This paper presents the application of reinforcement learning in automatic analog IC design. In this work, the Multi-Objective approach by Learning Automata is evaluated for accommodating required functionalities and performance specifications considering optimal minimizing of MOSFETs area and power consumption for two famous CMOS op-amps. The results show the ability of the proposed method to ...

A review of portable air cleaner devices: purification processes, performance standards, effectiveness in controlling indoor air pollutants

Background and objective: Indoor air pollutants are among the five most important environmental health risks. In recent years, concerns regarding indoor air in buildings have increased. In this review, studies conducted on portable air cleaners have been investigated. Materials and methods: After determining the keywords and conducting comprehensive searches in the internet databases, taking i...