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4 Chap. 1 Introduction to Microelectronics
translating the spectrum back to zero center frequency is necessary. For example, as depicted in
Fig. 1.4(a), multiplication by a sinusoid,
A
cos(2
f
c
t
)
, translates the spectrum to left and right by
f
f
C
0
+
f
C
−
Spectrum of Cosine
f
f
C
0
f
C
Output Spectrum
(a)
f
f
C
0
+
f
C
−
+2
−2
(b)
oscillator
Low−Pass
Filter
oscillator
Low−Pass
Filter
Amplifier
Low−Noise
Amplifier
(c)
Received Spectrum
Figure 1.4 (a) Translation of modulated signal to zero center frequency, (b) simple receiver, (b) more
complete receiver.
f
c
, restoring the original voice band. The newly-generated components at
2
f
c
can be removed
by a low-pass filter. We thus arrive at the receiver topology shown in Fig. 1.4(b).
Our receiver design is still incomplete. The signal received by the antenna can be as low as
a few tens of microvolts whereas the speaker may require swings of several tens or hundreds
of millivolts. That is, the receiver must provide a great deal of amplification (“gain”) between
the antenna and the speaker. Furthermore, since multipliers typically suffer from a high “noise”
and hence corrupt the received signal, a “low-noise amplifier” must precede the multiplier. The
overall architecture is depicted in Fig. 1.4(c).
Today’s cellphones are much more sophisticated than the topologies developed above. For
example, the voice signal in the transmitter and the receiver is applied to a digital signal processor
(DSP) to improve the quality and efficiencyof the communication. Nonetheless, our study reveals
some of the fundamental building blocks of cellphones, e.g., amplifiers, oscillators, and filters,
with the last two also utilizing amplification. We therefore devote a great deal of effort to the
analysis and design of amplifiers.
Having seen the necessity of amplifiers, oscillators, and multipliers in both transmit and re-
ceive paths of a cellphone, the reader may wonder if “this is old stuff” and rather trivial compared
to the state of the art. Interestingly, these building blocks still remain among the most challenging
circuits in communication systems. This is because the design entails critical trade-offs between
speed (gigahertz center frequencies), noise, power dissipation (i.e., battery lifetime), weight, cost
(i.e., price of a cellphone), and many other parameters. In the competitive world of cellphone
manufacturing, a given design is never “good enough” and the engineers are forced to further
push the above trade-offs in each new generation of the product.
1.2.2 Digital Camera
Another consumer product that, by virtue of “going electronic,” has dramatically changed our
habits and routines is the digital camera. With traditional cameras, we received no immediate
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