What is the future of CMOS RFIC Design past 90nm and beyond?

[Puppet1]

CMOS RFIC Design

What is the future of CMOS RFIC Design past at 90nm and beyond ?

Anyone have any opinions ?

Are we going back to bipolar ?

 

[yeewong_su]

CMOS RFIC Design

I real don't know who can touch the 90nM process of CMOS

 

[hrkhari]

Re: CMOS RFIC Design

Hi:

I think ,the future lies in the ability in coming forth with reliable low voltage architecture for analog circuitry, since the voltage headroom of 90nm CMOS process is low. However the higher transit frequency offered in this process, enables the design of higher frequency broadband application.

Rgds

 

[vonleo]

Re: CMOS RFIC Design

one application is 60GHz cmos RF, with a 7GHz bandwidth and 1Gbps data rate. Replace the expensive GaAs by Si CMOS, hopefully around 2010.

 

[Puppet1]

Re: CMOS RFIC Design

you really think cmos will hit 60GHz ?

no way at 0.13um !

guys are berkeley are nuts