With the development of low power mobile wireless personal communication and the improvement of performance of CMOS technology
to implement a RF front end of a wireless communication system using CMOS technology is not only neceessary but also feasible.In this paper
special issues to implement the RF integrated circuits are discussed.Firstly
a variety of transceiver architectures are reviewed in comparison of their characteristics and kernel issues that should be addressed in transceiver design.Secondly
important building blocks of CMOS RF front end
including low noise amplifier
mixer
frequency synthesizer and power amplifier
are discussed.The core subject of such building blocks such as figure of merit
possible circuit schematics and others are presented.Thirdly
the possibilities and methods to integrate the inductor and capacitor in the RF band are figured out in this paper.And
finally a perspective for the development of CMOS RF integrated circuits are dressed out.