Exploiting ultra-wide bandwidths is a promising approach to achieve the terabits per second
(Tbps) data rates required to unlock emerging mobile applications like mobile extended …

As communication systems scale up in speed and bandwidth, the cost and power
consumption of high-precision (eg, 8-12 bits) analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) becomes …

Approximate computing (AC) is an emerging embedded computing paradigm whereby
accurate arithmetic units (ie, adders and multipliers) of a computing platform (eg, CPU …

Today's exploding demand for faster, more reliable, and ubiquitous radio systems in
communication, instrumentation, radar, and sensors poses unprecedented challenges in …

With its ability to provide a single platform enabling a variety of services, such as enhanced
mobile broadband communications, virtual reality, automated driving, and the Internet of …

The ever improving cost advantages and processing capabilities of the technology have
been happening according to the so-called Moore's Law. Although digital circuits can …

The economies of scale in modern communication systems are enabled by architectures
that take advantage of Moore's law to implement most transceiver functionalities in digital …

Duty-cycling has emerged as the predominant method for optimizing power consumption of
low-power radios, particularly for sensors that transmit sporadically in small bursts. But duty …

One of the key trends in the design of radio receivers and other wireless devices is to shift
more and more of the transceiver functionalities to digital signal processing (DSP). At the …

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Third-generation (3G) mobile and wireless net- works target …