VLSI for Wireless Communication, Second Edition, an advanced level text book, takes a system approach starting with an overview of the most up to date wireless systems and the transceiver architecture available today. Wireless standards are first introduced (updated to include the most recent 3G/4G standards in the second edition), and translates from a wireless standard to the implementation of a transceiver. This system approach is particularly important as the level of integration in VLSI increases and coupling between system and component design becomes more intimate. VLSI for Wireless Communication, Second Edition, illustrates designs with full design examples. Each chapter includes at least one complete design example that helps explain the architecture/circuits presented in this text. This book has close to 10 homework problems at the end of each chapter. A complete solutions manual is available on-line. VLSI for Wireless Communication, Second Edition, is designed as a primary text book for upper-undergraduate level students and graduate level students concentrating on electrical engineering and computer science. Professional engineers and researchers working in wireless communications, circuit design and development will find this book valuable as well.

“Wireless is coming” was the message received by VLSI designers in the early 1990’s. They believed it. But they never imagined that the wireless wave would be coming with such intensity and speed. Today one of the most challenging areas for VLSI designers is VLSI circuit and system design for wireless applications. New generation of wireless systems, which includes multimedia, put severe constraints on performance, cost, size, power and energy. The challenge is immense and the need for new generation of VLSI designers, who are fluent in wireless communication and are masters of mixed signal design, is great. No single text or reference book contains the necessary material to educate such needed new generation of VLSIdesigners. There are gaps. Excellent books exist on communication theory and systems, including wireless applications and others treat well basic digital, analog and mixed signal VLSI design. We feel that this book is the first of its kind to fill that gap. In the first half of this book we offer the reader (the VLSI designer) enough material to understand wireless communication systems. We start with a historical account. And then we present an overview of wireless communication systems. This is followed by detailed treatment of related topics; the mobile radio, digital modulation and schemes, spread spectrum and receiver architectures. The second half of the book deals with VLSI design issues related to mixed-signal design. These include analog-to-digital conversion, transceiver design, digital low-power techniques, amplifier design, phase locked loops and frequency synthesizers.

Advanced VLSI design using programmable logic devices and FPGAs is suitable to meet the new generation requirements due to their ability to take advantage of new process technologies and geometries. Wireless Communication is one of the most active areas of technology development of recent time, as it is rapidly changing with new features and technology. Wireless Communication today covers a very wide array of applications. Radio Frequency Identification technology and Wireless sensor Network systems are most important field of Wireless Communication system. The candidate has chosen the field of RFID and WSN as the areas of work to venture some Adaptive VLSI design. Hardware implementation up to RTL schematic level has been performed. In order to substantiate the design and real time verification, synthesizable modules are downloaded on the high performance FPGA kit. Designs are performed using high syntax VHDL code language and simulation results are obtained with Xilinx ISE 14.3 simulator. Virtex 5, Spartan 6 and Kintex-7 FPGA boards have been used as a hardware implementation platform. Performance evaluation and comparative study with related work is performed, wherever it is possible. Processor implementation for RFID based power saving appliance, Hardware implementation of anti-collision algorithm for RFID technology, FPGA realization of novel data security scheme for RFID, Power efficient FPGA based wireless sensor node implementation with efficient localization algorithm for large Wireless sensor network system and finally, low power, low cost CORDIC algorithm based DPSK modem realization with FPGA are the contribution of this research work and are described in this book.

This textbook takes a unified view of the fundamentals of wireless communication and explains cutting-edge concepts in a simple and intuitive way. An abundant supply of exercises make it ideal for graduate courses in electrical and computer engineering and it will also be of great interest to practising engineers.