RFIC Solutions

Tahoe RF Semiconductor develops and manages the manufacture of customer-specific analog & RFIC chips and chipsets.

The company has a rich portfolio of silicon proven IP and expertise in the many wireless and high speed applications. The team has demonstrated many first pass successes on design and delivery of complex ICs optimized for customer’s sub-systems and systems. A proven and rigorous design methodology has been developed to help assure our high rate of success.

Tahoe RF’s award-winning product solution areas include: 

• Mobile Cellular Transceivers
•  WCDMA, CDMA 2000, GSM/EDGE
• Wi-Fi Transceivers
• Pin Electronics ICs (ATE)
• Frequency Synthesizers
• Mixed Signal Systems on a Chip
• GPS receivers
• Satellite Communication ICs
• Tire Pressure Measurement ICs

Our Expertise

The Tahoe RF team expertise spans many applications. Our solutions include innovative circuit architectures and techniques in the following areas:

• Extremely low power designs techniques for RFID-like applications
• High performance designs (up to 12 GHz)
• Radiation Hardened design techniques
• RF, mixed-signal and full RTL digital flow

Technology Experience

Tahoe RF is foundry agnostic and will select a technology best suited to the customer’s specific requirements. The solutions have been implemented in 0.5 micron to 90 nm technologies. Tahoe RF has developed and maintains strong relationships with most major foundries. Tahoe RF has been certified as “Ready for IBM Technology” by IBM, and is winner of IBM 2006 Beacon Award for the best “Microelectronics Solution”. In addition, Tahoe RF has developed solutions using following foundries:

• IBM
• TSMC
• Jazz Semiconductor
• Atmel
• Fujitsu
• Peregrine Semiconductor

Silicon Proven IP Blocks

Tahoe RF maintains an impressive catalog of silicon verified RFIC building blocks and solutions which is leveraged in the development of new projects. These blocks lowerthe technical risk, development cost and allow us to deliver faster solutions to our customers.
The following functions are representative of Tahoe RF Semiconductor's extensive silicon-proven IP library, which may be used directly or modified to meet customer-specific requirements:

• VCOs and Oscillators
• Integer-N and Frac-N Frequency Synthesizers
• RF Front-ends
• LNAs, Mixers
• Amplifiers, gain stages
• PA & PA drivers
• Drivers and Comparators
• On chip regulators
• Buck Regulators
• Switch-cap filters, gm-C filters
• Data converters A/D and D/A

Sample IP blocks

• TRFS-051 WCDMA LNA (PDF file)
• TRFS-101 Dual RF Mixer (PDF file)
• TRFS-102 WCDMA Mixer (PDF file)
• TRFS-151 900MHz LNA/Mixer (PDF file)
• TRFS-152 WCDMA Receiver (PDF file)
• TRFS-153 Baseband VGA (PDF file)
• TRFS-154 Quad Generator (PDF file)
• TRFS-155 RF VGA (Rx) (PDF file)
• TRFS-201 Fully Integrated CMOS 3.2 GHz VCO (PDF file)
• TRFS-202 Receiver VCO (PDF file)
• TRFS-203 Transmitter VCO (PDF file)
• TRFS-204 VCO (PDF file)
• TRFS-251 VCO/PLL Synthesizer (PDF file)
• TRFS-252 VCO Synthesizer (PDF file)
• TRFS-253 WCDMA Reference Divider (PDF file)
• TRFS-254 WCDMA RF Divider (PDF file)
• TRFS-255 PFD-CP (PDF file)
• TRFS-302 IQ Modulator Amp (PDF file)
• TRFS-303 RF VGA (Tx) (PDF file)
• TRFS-304 IF VGA (PDF file)
• TRFS-401 5GHz High Speed Driver/Comparator (PDF file)
• TRFS-402 Diff Comparator (PDF file)
• TRFS-403 CD Comparator (PDF file)
• TRFS-404 Driver (PDF file)
• TRFS-451 Fractional-N Synthesizer (PDF file)
• TRFS-501 Analog Baseband Chip (PDF file)
• TRFS-551 PA Driver Core Circuit (PDF file)
• TRFS-552 Differential PA (PDF file)

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