ITR: Statistical Electronics and Soliton Electronics - Two Novel Paradigms for High-Performance High-Speed Wireless Transceivers Design in Silicon

射频收发器是高速无线网络中最关键的部分之一。由于成本低，他们的硅实施将加快无线网络的全球部署。出于这个原因，硅RF收发器的设计在过去几年一直是一个动态的研究领域。尽管硅技术施加的严重限制，研究奋进显着先进的国家的最先进的。回顾过去的进步，并预计进一步的进步，它被认为是现在有必要解决的基本限制和其潜在的物理机制，在硅RF收发器的设计，与建议的研究关注。本研究的统计和孤子电子学，涉及理论和实验，最终目的是利用物理的理解，以尖端的电路创新。统计电子学跨越电路设计和统计物理，以解决射频接收机中的噪声问题。利用随机物理学的创新电路设计，拟议的研究将集中在一个新的相位噪声自猝灭效应及其应用于低噪声振荡器的设计。在基础层面上，PI将对振荡器和数据转换器的热力学进行研究。研究还包括随机共振在无线收发器设计中的应用，其中噪声将发挥建设性的作用。孤子电子学涉及克服速度限制，是非线性科学和电路工程的边缘交叉研究。孤子电子学利用脉冲压缩和孤子在非线性传输线（NLTL）中的传播来产生和控制超尖脉冲。具体目标包括NLTL的表征和设计的NLTL为基础的自我维持的超尖脉冲generator.The智力的优点，这项研究在于提供的无线网络的持续扩张所面临的根本困难的理解。拟议的研究还将为集成收发器设计和高速电子产品增加一个新的维度。该研究预计将广泛影响需要超灵敏度的科学仪器，如LIGO。首席研究员计划在统计电子学和孤子电子学领域培养本科生和研究生跨学科工作。其目的是教育学生从更广泛的角度看待科学和工程的进展，欣赏跨学科的关系。

RF transceivers are one of the most critical parts of the high-speed wireless networks. Their silicon implementation will expedite global deployment of the wireless networks due to its low cost. For this reason, design of silicon RF transceivers has been a dynamic field of research past years. Despite the severe limitations imposed by the silicon technology, the research endeavor significantly advanced the state-of-the-art. Looking back on this past advance and anticipating the further advancement, it is deemed necessary now to address the fundamental limits and their underlying physical mechanisms in the silicon RF transceiver design, with which the proposed research is concerned. This research on statistical and soliton electronics, involving both theory and experiment, is ultimately aimed at leveraging the physical understanding to cutting-edge circuit innovations.Statistical electronics spans circuit design and statistical physics to tackle noise problems in RF receivers. Harnessing stochastic physics for innovative circuit design, the proposed research will focus on a novel phase noise self-quenching effect and its application to low noise oscillator design. On a fundamental level, the PI will undertake research on thermodynamics of oscillators and data converters. The research also includes application of stochastic resonance to design of wireless transceivers, where noise will play a constructive role.Soliton electronics concerned with overcoming speed limitations is an interdisciplinary investigation in the borderline of nonlinear science and circuit engineering. Soliton electronics utilizes pulse squeezing and soliton propagation in nonlinear transmission lines (NLTL) to generate and control ultra sharp pulses. The specific objectives consist of the NLTL characterization and design of NLTL-based self-sustained ultra sharp pulse generators.The intellectual merit of this research lies in providing understanding of the fundamental difficulties facing the continued expansion of the wireless networks. The proposed research will also add a new dimension to the integrated transceiver design, and high-speed electronics in general. The research is expected to broadly impact scientific instrumentation requiring ultra sensitivity such as LIGO.The principal investigator plans to train undergraduate and graduate students at interdisciplinary work in the area of statistical electronics and soliton electronics. The aim is to educate students to view progress in science and engineering from a broader perspective, appreciating the relationships across the disciplines.