W8: 5G Evolution to 6G – Technologies and Circuits
14:00 - 17:30
room 4+5
chairs
Florinel Balteanu (Skyworks Solutions, US)
abstract
The widespread adoption of global 5G smartphones has been made possible, in part, by increased computational capabilities of CMOS technology in lower feature nodes. This has been allowed for significant improvements in RF CMOS through the use of digital signal processing (DSP) and digital calibration. Research efforts to enhance the performance, reduce costs and decrease size of 5G solutions, are highly active and serve as driving force for the semiconductor industry. MmWave frequencies up to 300GHz will play a critical role in future 6G networks. The workshop will address current 5G semiconductor technologies and architectures used in cellular applications, explore challenges facing the deployment of 5G, and discuss prospects for future developments towards 6G.
program
14:00 - 14.10
Introduction to the Workshop
14:10 - 14:30
SiGe BiCMOS Technology: A Key Enabler for LEO Satellite Communications and D-Band Networks
Pascal Chevalier (STMicroelectronics, FR)
Andrea Pallotta (STMicroelectronics, FR)
14:30 - 14:50
SOI Technology Modeling for 5G/6G RF Applications
Tzung-Yin Lee (Skyworks Solutions, US)
14:50 - 15:10
Sub-THz CMOS Transceiver Design for 6G
Kenichi Okada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP)
15:10 - 15:30
5G Transceiver Circuits and Evolution to 6G
Florinel Balteanu (Skyworks Solutions, US)
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20
Low-Power, Low-Complexity, and High-Speed Digital Predistortion for Wideband Power Amplifiers
Francois Rivet (IMS Laboratory, FR)
16:20 - 16:40
CMOS mmWave Linear and Efficient Transmitters for 5G and Beyond
Victor Åberg (Chalmers University, SE)
Christian Fager (Chalmers University, SE)
16:40 - 17:00
6G High Frequency Synthesizers Using Periodically Repeated Oscillation Train and Injection Locked Oscillators
Alexandre Siligaris (CEA Leti, FR)
17:00 - 17: 20
Discussion
17:20 - 17:30
Conclusion
biosketches
Pascal Chevalier
Pascal Chevalier (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of Lille, France, in 1998 for his work on InP-based HEMT. He joined Alcatel Microelectronics, Belgium, in 1999, where he contributed to the start of RF BiCMOS. Since joining STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France, in 2002, he has been working on the development of SiGe BiCMOS and RF-SOI CMOS technologies and related devices, with a long-lasting research interest in SiGe HBT. He led the RF-SOI CMOS, BiCMOS & Photonics Technologies R&D team. He is currently Analog/RF Technology Architect and is a Fellow of Technical Staff. Dr. Chevalier has authored or co-authored over 200 technical journal papers and conference publications. He has served on the Technical Program Committees of the IEEE BCTM, the ECS SiGe Symposium, the IEEE BCICTS and the IEEE IEDM conferences. He has been a member of the RF & AMS Technologies section of the ITRS of which he led the Silicon Bipolar & BiCMOS subgroup.
Tzung-Yin Lee
Tzung-Yin Lee has been with Skyworks Solutions for more than 20 years and is currently a technical director responsible for RFIC and mmWave technology development and modeling. Prior to joining Skyworks he had been with Maxim Integrated Circuits and Conexant Systems, as an RFIC designer. He received the B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan, in 1991, and the M.E. and Ph.D degrees from University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Lee has authored or coauthored more than two dozens of research papers and a handful US patents.
Kenichi Okada
Prof. Kenichi Okada received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. He joined Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003, and he is now Professor. He has authored and co-authored more than 500 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include millimeter-wave/terahertz wireless transceiver, digital PLL, and ultra-low-power RF circuits. He is/was a TPC member of ISSCC, VLSI Circuits, ESSCIRC, RFIC Symposium, A-SSCC, Guest Editors and Associate Editors of JSSC and T-MTT, a Distinguished Lecturer of SSCS, and IEEE Fellow.
Florinel Balteanu
Florinel Balteanu received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, Romania, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania, in 1995. He is presently a Technical Director with Skyworks Solutions Inc., Irvine, CA and is involved in designing circuits for Envelope Tracking and Front End Modules in CMOS and SOI CMOS. He presented short courses and tutorials as an Invited Speaker at IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS). European Microwave Week (EuMW), European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) and Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC). He holds 98 U.S. patents, with several more pending. He is author of the chapter “Envelope Tracking Techniques” in the IET book “Radio Frequency and Microwave Power Amplifiers, Vol. 2: Efficiency and Linearity”.
Francois Rivet
Dr. Francois Rivet, Associate Professor at the Bordeaux Institute of Technology, has been a tenured faculty member since June 2010. With Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Bordeaux, his expertise is in RFIC (Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits) design. Rivet founded the "Circuits and Systems" research team at the IMS Laboratory in 2014, driving significant advances in microelectronics. His work has led to 20 patents and numerous awards. Additionally, he plays a crucial role in the academic community, serving on various Technical Program Committees and Steering Committees such as IEEE RFIC, IEEE ICECS, and IEEE LASCAS. Since 2024, he is a member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
Victor Åberg
Victor Åberg received his B.S and M.S degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2014 and 2016 respectively and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2022, all from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers University of Technology. His research interests include wideband transmitters for centimeter and millimeter wave frequencies with a focus on linearity, efficiency, and a high level of integration. He also have an interest in high-speed data converters.
Alexandre Siligaris
Alexandre Siligaris was born in Greece in 1977. He received his M.S. degree and the PhD from the University of Lille, France, in 2001 and 2004 respectively. In 2023, he received the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” (HDR) from the University of Grenoble-Alpes. He is currently senior scientific expert at the CEA-Leti, Grenoble, France. His work focuses on high frequency modelling and high frequency circuit design in CMOS and BiCMOS technologies. His research interests include very large-scale integration design, mmWave ICs, high data rate communications integrated systems, low power mmWave RFICs, integrated radar and sensing systems.