1. Imec unveiled two ADCs at the IEEE VLSI Symposium, designed for 'beyond 5G' communication, one for base stations and one for phones, both operating up to 5GHz. 2. The base station ADC is a 10Gsample/s CMOS hierarchical time-interleaved ADC with 9 ENOB at low frequencies and 8.2 ENOB at Nyquist, consuming 350mW. 3. The handset ADC uses a multi-bit pipelined architecture with background calibration, achieving 10.91 ENOB and 81dB SFDR at 1Gsample/s with 17.8mW consumption.

1. Imec has introduced a CMOS 56Gbit/s zero-IF D-band beam-forming transmitter at the IEEE RFIC Symposium. 2. The technology aims to support short-range wireless services above 100GHz, targeting applications in data centers, fixed wireless access, and extended reality. 3. The transmitter, operating between 120 and 145GHz, is part of a four-way beamforming transceiver chip under development.