Diversity RX based on quantized analog amplifier

本项目将探索降低无线通信设备成本和功耗的电路和系统。具体而言，该项目将侧重于无线蜂窝通信中使用的分集RX，通过使用额外的低成本接收器链来利用信道分集，从而在某些特定场景中提高数据速率。为了降低额外接收器的功率消耗和成本，本研究旨在探索多伦多大学最近开发的液体数字信号处理和量化放大的概念。在先进的纳米级CMOS中制作电路和系统的原型将为研究生提供独特的培训，并提高工作的商业相关性和影响力。 该研究将由1名教师，3名研究生和来自合作公司华为的研究人员进行。 华为是该领域研发的全球领导者，他们的研究活动专注于无线基础设施的模拟/混合信号电路，使他们成为该项目的完美合作伙伴。该项目提供了出色的培训机会，并将提高加拿大合作伙伴公司的竞争力，所有这些都是为了降低在加拿大广泛传播的无线移动的手机的成本和提高其效率。

This project will explore circuits and systems to reduce the cost and power consumption of wireless communication equipment. Specifically, the project will be focused on diversity RXs used in wireless cellular communication to improve the data-rate in some particular scenarios by using an additional low-cost receiver chain to take advantage of the channel diversity. In order to reduce the power consumption and the cost of this additional receiver, this research aim to explore the concept of liquid digital signal processing and quantized amplification recently developed at the University of Toronto. Prototyping the circuits and systems in advanced nanoscale CMOS will provide unique training for graduate students and enhance the work's commercial relevance and impact. The research will be undertaken by 1 faculty, 3 graduate students, and researchers from the partner company, Huawei. Huawei is a world leader in research and development in this area and their research activity, focused specifically on analog /mixed signal circuits for wireless infrastructures, makes them a perfect partner for the project. The project offers outstanding training opportunities and it will boost competitiveness for the Canadian partner company, all in pursuit of lower cost and major efficiency for the wireless mobile handset, widely diffused in Canada.