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Front end & Back end?

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I want to ask about the concepts of "Front End" and "Back End".
do they mean the transmitter and receiver in RFIC?

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These terms describe RF design process rather than a partcular device:

The front-end of RFIC design includes system partitioning, functional simulation, behavioural modeling, schematic design etc and its back-end design includes layout drawing, DRC, LVS, parasitic extractions and back annotation etc.
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for ic design, front end means those before layout, back end means those after layout.

for RF receiver, front end means those RF blocks close to antenna.
 
Front end covers - Design RTL Schematic,logic synthesis
Back end covers - Synthesis, Place and Route, Timing


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front end invariably means the logic design using some HDL tools and their verification...
Then comes synthesis of the code..
in backend, the synthsised netlist is converted to gates on layout...
 

in ic world
front end means design/layout
back end means test/char
 

in IC DESIGN
front end means design(RTL/Schematic,
SIM(pre/post)
back end means APR/LAYOUT
 

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