Wireless Transceiver Systems Design / Edition 1

by Wolfgang Eberle

Overview

1 During the last 30 years, wireless in communications has grown from a niche market to an economically vital consumer mass market. The first wave, with the breakthrough of 2G mobile telephony focused on speech, placed wireless communication in the consumer mass market. In the current second wave, services are extended toward true multimedia, including interactive video, audio, gaming, and broadband Internet. These high-data rate services, however, led to a separate IP-centric family of wireless personal (WPANs) and local area networks (WLANs) outside the 2G/3G mobile path. Since diversity between data- and voice-centric solutions and the competition between standardized and proprietary approaches is today more blocking than enabling effective development of successful products, a third major wave is unavoidable: a consolidation of both worlds in portable devices with flexible multistandard communication capabilities enabled for quality-of-service- 2 aware multimedia services. At the same time, the dominance of wired desktop personal computers has been undermined by the appearance of numerous portable and smart devices: laptops, notebooks, personal digital assistants, and gaming devices. Since these devices target low-cost consumer markets or face wired competition, time to market is crucial, designed-in flexibility is important, l- power operation is a key asset, yet device cost shall be at a minimum. This book approaches this design tradeoff challenge from the perspective of the system architect. The system architect is concerned both in an efficient design process and in a competitive design result.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387745152
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/07/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	289
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

The System Design Process.- Specification for a Wireless LAN Terminal.- Efficient Digital VLSI Signal Processing for OFDM.- Digital Compensation Techniques for Receiver Front-Ends.- Design Space Exploration for Transmitters.- Methodologies for Transceiver Design.- Conclusions and Further Research.