RF CMOS

Die shot of a Broadcom BCM2050KMLG, an RF CMOS chip used as a WiFi 802.11g transceiver.[1] Notice the octagon-like, spiral-like structures, which can act as inductors[2] transformers and baluns.[3][4][5]
Die shot of a Marvell 88W8010 WiFi 802.11g transceiver. It has both octagon-like and square-like, spiral-like structures that can also be used as inductors.[6]

RF CMOS is a metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit (IC) technology that integrates radio-frequency (RF), analog and digital electronics on a mixed-signal CMOS (complementary MOS) RF circuit chip.[7][8] It is widely used in modern wireless telecommunications, such as cellular networks, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS receivers, broadcasting, vehicular communication systems, and the radio transceivers in all modern mobile phones and wireless networking devices. RF CMOS technology was pioneered by Pakistani engineer Asad Ali Abidi at UCLA during the late 1980s to early 1990s, and helped bring about the wireless revolution with the introduction of digital signal processing in wireless communications. The development and design of RF CMOS devices was enabled by van der Ziel's FET RF noise model, which was published in the early 1960s and remained largely forgotten until the 1990s.[9][10] [11][12]

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  9. ^ A. van der Ziel (1962). "Thermal noise in field effect transistors". Proceedings of the IRE. 50 (8): 1808–1812. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1962.288221.
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