What is RFIC designer?
Description. As a RF IC design engineer, you will be a key member of a small RFIC team, researching, designing and bringing the next-generation wireless SoCs into high-volume production at advanced CMOS technology nodes. Responsibilities include: – Design of analog and/or RFIC blocks.
What is monolithic circuit?
A monolithic integrated circuit (IC) is a complete circuit or group of circuits manufactured in a single piece of silicon, a typical physical size being 1.25 mm square (or about fifty thousandths of an inch square). The word ‘monolithic’ implies that the circuit is manufactured within a single crystal.
What is a radio frequency IC?
Radio-frequency ICs (RFICs) are analog integrated circuits. They normally operate in a frequency range of 30 kHz to 300 GHz that is suitable for wireless transmission. RFIC applications include mobile phones, WLAN, UWB,GPS, Bluetooth devices, and others.
Why are ICs so cheap?
Q2. Why are ICs so cheap? ICs are so cheap because of simultaneous production of hundreds of similar circuits on a small semiconductor wafer.
What is RF transceiver?
RF transceivers are electronic devices used to transmit and/or receive radio frequency signals. RF transceivers comprise a RF Transmitter and RF Receiver in a single module.
Why is an IC small?
The small size of these circuits allows high speed, low power dissipation, and reduced manufacturing cost compared with board-level integration. These digital ICs, typically microprocessors, DSPs, and microcontrollers, use boolean algebra to process “one” and “zero” signals.
Why are circuits so small?
The capacitance between two conductors is a function of their physical size: smaller dimensions mean smaller capacitances. And because smaller capacitances mean higher speed as well as lower power, smaller transistors can be run at higher clock frequencies and dissipate less heat while doing so.