Renesas Technology has entered into a strategic research collaboration with IMEC, a research centre specialising in nanoelectronics, to perform research on 45nm RF transceivers targeting Gbit/s cognitive radios. To this end, Renesas has joined IMEC's software-defined radio (SDR) front-end program.
This research programme includes reconfigurable RF solutions, high-speed/low-power analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) and new approaches to digitise future RF architectures.
Researchers from Renesas will reside at IMEC to closely collaborate with IMEC's research team. In this way, they will build a fundamental understanding and develop robust solutions for Renesas future mobile electronics products.
IMEC's SDR-front-end programme targets the development of a new-generation cost, performance and power-competitive reconfigurable radio in 45nm digital CMOS technology. This radio will have a programmable centre frequency from 100MHz to 6GHz and programmable bandwidth from 100kHz to 40MHz, covering all key communication standards.
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