Wireless RF design challenges

The challenges and opportunities for the RF designer have perhaps never been greater. The drive to higher levels of integration in the extremely competitive cellular chipset market place; the emergence of new wireless communications links such as Bluetooth and WLAN; and the continual need to provide multi-band, multi-mode, multiservice, modulation independent, cost effective transceivers have all produced a great demand for RF design skills. This paper discusses the markets, system level specifications, and RF design challenges.