ABSTRACT
Whereas the trends for wireless transceivers design are in the direction of integration of most of the
blocks to reduce the cost, two main terminal families are identified:
– The low-end terminals should serve voice centric standards like GSM, and should be time duplex
mode operation (TDD). These standards permit global integration, RF-analog-digital, ap-
proach. This means that the best process candidate for this family is the VLSI CMOS if the
cointegration between RF, analog, and digital is demonstrated.
