An integrated 900 MHz spread-spectrum wireless receiver in 1-(mu)m CMOS and a suspended inductor technique

ortable wireless personal communication systems such as cellular phones, message pagers, and wireless modems traditionally have been built from a mixture of IC technologies: GaAs or silicon bipolar for the RF front-end, CMOS for the baseband DSP circuits. This approach increases system complexity, cost, and power consumption. In addition, the typical transceiver architecture mandates the use of off-chip bandpass filters which increase system size.;This dissertation describes the first single-chip 900 MHz frequency-hopped spread-spectrum wireless receiver in 1-;This receiver achieves 62 dB of SFDR with...