Analog Signal Processing: A Possible Alternative or Complement to Dominantly Digital Radio Schemes

Today's exploding demand for faster, more reliable, and ubiquitous radio systems in communication, instrumentation, radar, and sensors poses unprecedented challenges in microwave and millimeter-wave engineering. Recently, the predominant trend has been to place an increasing emphasis on digital signal processing (DSP). However, while offering device compactness and processing flexibility, DSP suffers fundamental drawbacks, such as high-cost analog-digital conversion, high power consumption, and poor performance at high frequencies.