Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) 2025
June 15 - 17, 2025 | San Francisco, USA
Premier symposium driving innovation in RFIC components & systems.
Imec
At the upcoming RFIC symposium, imec will showcase its research and innovations across various technical sessions and workshops. There will be presentations on the design and performance of PLL-based chirp generators for FMCW radar applications, as well as an exploration of the challenges of CMOS with beamforming in the D-band. Sessions will focus on millimeter-wave building blocks and energy efficiency in IoT RFICs, including a presentation on a compact low-power complex impedance sensor for beamforming transmitters. A panel discussion will address RFIC innovation, and a novel D-band power amplifier will be presented. Additionally, an advanced modulator driver for silicon photonic transmitters will be discussed. These contributions highlight imec's role in advancing RFIC technology.
June 15, 2025
- Pratap Tumkur Renukaswamy, Researcher, will present on "Design and Performance Characterization of PLL-Based Chirp Generators for FMCW Radar Applications" during the workshop: Frequency Synthesizer Design — from Fundamentals to Advanced Techniques.
- Giuseppe Gramegna, Program Director, and Piet Wambacq, imec Fellow, will present on "Challenging CMOS with Beamforming in the D-Band" during the workshop: RF-FE and Phased Array System for 5.5G and 6G.
June 16, 2025
- Giuseppe Gramegna, Program Director, is the co-chair of the technical session: Millimeter-Wave Building Blocks & Components.
- Yao-Hong Liu, Scientific Director, is the chair of the technical session: Unleashing Energy Efficiency and High Linearity in IoT RFICs.
- Xuepu Wu, Yang Zhang, Giovanni Mangraviti, Rana ElKashlan and Piet Wambacq will present on "A 24-31GHz Compact Low-Power Complex Impedance Sensor for Beamforming Transmitters in 22nm FD-SOI" during the technical session: Millimeter-Wave Building Blocks & Components.
June 17, 2025
- Oleh Krutko, Vice-President R&D, will participate in the panel discussion: "RFIC Innovation: Has the Field Stalled or Are Researchers Losing Their Way?".
- Yang Zhang, Principal Member of Technical Staff, and Mark Ingels, R&D Manager, are among the authors of the paper "A D-band Guanella Transformer Based Stacked Doherty Power Amplifier with Adaptive Bias Network in 250-nm InP DHBT", which will be presented during the technical session: mmWave Power Amplifiers and Transmitters.
- Luc Pauwels, DSP RF Lab Supervisor; Pieter Bex, R&D Engineer; Chiara Marchese, R&D Engineer; Guy Lepage, R&D Engineer; Yoojin Ban, Program Manager; and Dimitrios Velenis, R&D Manager, are among the authors of the paper "An 8-Lane 58 Gb/s/lane 0.66 pJ/bit Modulator Driver Electrical-IC for a 3-D Integrated Silicon Photonic Transmitter in 22 nm FD-SOI Process", which will be presented during the technical session: Pushing RFIC Boundaries with Out-of-the-Box Innovation.
Event details
The IEEE RFIC Symposium is the premier annual forum focused on presenting the latest breakthroughs and research results in all areas related to radio frequency (RF), millimeter-wave (mmWave), and wireless Integrated Circuits (ICs). The RFIC Symposium, combined with the International Microwave Symposium (IMS), ARFTG, and the Industry Exhibition, forms the “IMS Week”, the world’s largest RF and microwave technical meeting of the year.