Rapidly reconfigurable waveform generator on a CMOS chip could be used for high-speed wireless communication
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—An arbitrary waveform generator can, as its name implies, generate waves of almost any shape by controlling the amplitude, frequency, phase, and other wave characteristics. Waveform generators working in the radio frequency (RF) regime have a wide variety of uses in electronics, including wireless communication, radar, high-speed testing, and anywhere complex signals are needed. Typically, waveform generators are about the size of a DVD player. However, future wireless applications will require waveform generation and processing on a silicon chip.