Cognitive Radio Receiver Front-Ends

This book focuses on the architecture and circuit design for cognitive radio receiver front-ends. The authors first provide a holistic explanation of RF circuits for cognitive radio systems. This is followed by an in-depth exploration of existing techniques that can be utilized by circuit designers. Coverage also includes novel circuit techniques and architectures that can be invaluable for designers for cognitive radio systems.

. Discusses in detail the circuit-level challenges that exist for cognitive radio systems;
. Provides readers with a holistic understanding of RF circuits for cognitive radio systems;
. Enables communications engineers and systems designers to design better cognitive radio architectures and communication protocols.

Introduction.- Cognitive Radio Architectures.- Wideband Voltage Controlled Oscillator.- RF Sampling and Signal Processing.- CRAFT: Charge Re-use Analog Fourier Transform.- Conclusions.