THE PROJECT

The main objective of the DRAGON (Design Methods for Radio Architectures Going Nanoscale) project was to research and use new design methodologies and architectural innovation based on reconfigurability and state-of-the-art digital CMOS technology in order to break the barriers imposed by the lacking scaling properties of analog components.

Contact

Project Coordinator
TECHNIKON Forschungs- und Planungsgesellschaft mbH
Burgplatz 3a
A-9500 Villach
E-Mail: coordination(at)dragon-project.eu
Web: www.technikon.com

Public Deliverables

Project Period 3  
 
Project Period 2  
 
Project Period 1  
 

Publications

2013
How to Reach 100% Coding Efficiency in Multilevel Burst-Mode RF Transmitters
K. Hausmair, S. Chi, C. Vogel in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits, Systems, 2013
Coding Efficiency of Bandlimited PWM Based Burst-Mode RF Transmitter
S. Chi, K. Hausmair, C. Vogel in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits, Systems, 2013
 
July 2013
Multiplierless Implementation of an Aliasing-Free Digital Pulse-Width Modulator
K. Hausmair, P. Singerl, C. Vogel in Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE, July 2013
 
April 2013
Analysis and Optimization of Transformer-Based Power Combining for Back-Off Efficiency Enhancement
E. Kaymaksut, B. François, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of TCAS; April 2013
 
March 2013
 
February 2013
Extending dynamic range of RF PWM transmitters
B. Francois, P. Nuyts, W. Dehaene, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of TCAS; February 2013
 
December 2012
Aliasing-Free Digital Pulse-Width Modulation for Burst-Mode RF Transmitters
K. Hausmair, S. Chi, P. Singerl, C. Vogel; in Proceedings of TCAS; December 2012
 
November 2012
A 7.5mW 9MHz CT ΔΣ Modulator in 65 nm CMOS with 69 dB SNDR and Reduced Sensitivity to Loop Delay Variations
M. Andersson, M. Anderson, L. Sundström, P. Andreani; in Proceedings of A-SSCC 2012; November 2012
 
October 2012
A CMOS Burst-Mode Transmitter with Watt-Level RF PA and Flexible Fully Digital Front-End
P.A.J. Nuyts, B. Francois, W. Dehaene, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of TCAS; October 2012
 
September 2012
Low-Phase-Noise 3.4-4.5 GHz Dynamic-Bias Class-C CMOS VCOs with a FoM of 191 dBc/Hz
L. Fanori, P. Andreani; in Proceedings of ESSCIRC; September 2012
 
July 2012
Transformer-based uneven Doherty power amplifier in 90nm CMOS for WLAN-applications
E. Kaymaksut and P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of Solid-State Circuits; IEEE; July 2012
 
June 2012
A Review on Low-Complexity Structures and Algorithms for the Correction of Mismatch Errors in Time-Interleaved ADCs
C. Vogel, M. Hotz, S. Saleem, K. Hausmair, and M. Soudan; in Proceedings of NEWCAS; IEEE; June 2012
A fully-integrated watt-level linear 900-MHz CMOS RF power amplifier for LTE-applications
B. Francois and P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of Microwave Theory and Techniques; IEEE; June 2012
 
April 2012
RF-to-Baseband Digitization in 40 nm CMOS With RF Bandpass Modulator and Polyphase Decimation Filter
E. Martens, A. Bourdoux, A. Couvreur, R. Fasthuber,P. Van Wesemael, G. Van der Plas, J. Craninckx, J. Ryckaert; in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits; April 2012
CMOS software-defined radio transceivers: Analog design in digital technology
J. Craninckx; in IEEE Communications Magazine; April 2012
 
September 2011
CMOS Transformer-Based Uneven Doherty Power Amplifier for WLAN Applications
E. Kaymaksut, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of ESSCIRC; September 2011
A Fully Integrated CMOS Power Amplifier For LTE-applications Using Clover Shaped DAT
B. Francois, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of ESSCIRC; September 2011
 
August 2011
Coding efficiency optimization for multilevel PWM based switched-mode RF transmitters
S. Chi, P. Singerl, C. Vogel; in IEEE 54th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS); August 2011
Burst Mode Operation as an Effciency Enhancement Technique for RF power amplifiers
B. Francois, E. Kaymaksut, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of URSI GASS; August 2011
Design consideration for RF and mm-wave CMOS Power Amplifiers
P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of MRSS; August 2011
 
June 2011
A 48-dB DR 80-MHz BW 8.88-GS/s bandpass ΔΣ ADC for RF digitization with integrated PLL and polyphase decimation filter in 40nm CMOS
A. Bourdoux, A. Couvreur, J. Craninckx, E. Martens, J. Ryckaert, G. Van der Plas, P. Van Wesemael; in Proceedings of 2011 Symposium on VLSI Circuits; IEEE; August 2011
Efficiency and Linearity Analysis of a Burst Mode RF PA with Direct Filter Connection
B. Francois, P. Singerl, A. Wiesbauer, Patrick Reynaert; June 2011
 
January 2011
CMOS RF Power Amplifiers for Mobile Communications (Chapter 13)
P. Reynaert; in Multi-Mode/Multi-Band RF Transceivers for Wireless Communications; January 2011
Polar Modulation
P. Reynaert; in Microwave Magazine; January 2011
 
December 2010
Analysis and design of series combining transformers for integrated Doherty power amplifiers
E. Kaymaksut, B. Francois, P. Reynaert; in Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC); Asia-Pacific; December 2010
The Frequency Spectrum of Polar Modulated PWM Signals and the Image Problem
S. Chi, C. Vogel, P. Singerl; in Proceedings of ICECS 2010; December 2010
 
September 2010
A 2.4 GHz Fully Integrated Doherty Power Amplifier Using Series Combining Transformer
E. Kaymaksut, P. Reynaert; in Proceedings of ESSCIRC 2012; September 2010
Analysis of a Burst Mode RF PA with Direct Filter Connection
B. Francois, P. Singerl, A. Wiesbauer, P. Reynaert; in International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies; September 2010
 
May 2010
A 6.1 GS/s 52.8 mW 43dB DR 80 MHz Bandwidth 2.4 GHz RF Bandpass DS ADC in 4 nm CMOS
J. Ryckaert, A. Geis, L. Bos, G. Van der Plas, J. Craninckx; in Proceedings of IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium ; May 2010
 
April 2010
Versatile spectrum sensing on mobile devices?
A. Dejonghe, S. Pollin, L. Hollevoet, F. Naessens, E. Lopez, P. Raghavan, A. Bourdoux, P. Van Wesemael, J. Ryckaert, J. Craninckx, L. Van der Perre; in Proceedings of DySPAN; April 2010

 

FP7-gen-RGB

DRAGON is co-funded by the European Union under EU Framework Programme 7

Project Details

Project reference: 248277
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration: 40 months
Project cost: € 5.008.435
Project funding: € 3.480.000
Programme type:
Seventh Framework Programme
Programme acronym:
FP7-ICT-2009-4
Contract type: Collaborative project