Christian Vogel

Dr. Christian Vogel

Senior Researcher at the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW)
Lecturer at the Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory
Graz University of Technology,

office Graz: IDEG 104, Inffeldgasse 16c, A-8010 Graz, Austria
office Vienna: Donau-City-Straße 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria
email: vogel@ftw.at
phone: +43 316 873 - 4383

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Digitally Enhanced Analog Circuits and Digitally Assisted RF Circuits

The continuing downscaling of feature sizes in integrated circuits has enabled the realization of ever more complex electronic devices. In addition to purely digital functions such as microprocessors, we have seen an extraordinary growth in wireless and wireline communications. Since most communication channels are "analog" in nature, such applications are typically partitioned into an analog front-end and a digital back-end processing unit. Since the analog and digital system elements usually obey different limits and technology trends, proper partitioning is an important challenge. This is particularly so in cases where the analog interface constitutes the system's bottleneck. In recent years, we have seen growing efforts to push the digital processing functions "closer to the antenna," aiming for a reduction in the complexity of performance-limiting analog and RF elements. In addition to minimizing analog content, there has been a clear trend toward digitally enhanced and assisted analog design, aiming to leverage digital correction and calibration techniques to improve the analog and RF performance.

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Review Papers

Sampling and Reconstruction

Digitally Assisted RF Circuits

Digitally Enhanced DA Converters

Digitally Enhanced All-digital Phase-locked Loops

Digitally Enhanced Time-interleaved ADCs

Software-defined GNSS Receiver