Electronics Research Laboratory
Dept. of Microelectronics

dr. M.R. Beikmirza

Postdoc
Electronic Circuits and Architectures (ELCA), Department of Microelectronics

PhD thesis (Jun 2023): Advanced Bits-In RF-Out Transmitters
Promotor: Morteza Alavi, Leo de Vreede

Expertise: RFIC transceivers and monolithic microwave integrated circuit design

Themes: RF electronics

Biography

Mohammadreza Beikmirza (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2014 and 2016, respectively. He achieved his Ph.D. from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2023, where he continues as a post-doctoral research fellow. His current research interests include digital-intensive transmitters and RF/monolithic microwave integrated circuit design.
Dr. Beikmirza was a recipient of the Amirkabir University of Technology Best Undergraduate Thesis Award 2015, IEEE Iran Section Best Undergraduate Thesis Award 2015, and the Platinum Award (first place) of the Huawei RFIC Contest 2021, and a co-recipient of the ISE President Best Paper Award 2021.

Projects history

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  1. 5.8 A 20W CMOS/LDMOS All-Digital Transmitter with Dynamic Retiming and Glitch-Free Phase Mapper, Achieving 68%/62% Peak Drain/System Efficiency
    Mul, Dieuwert Peter Nicolaas; Bootsman, Rob J; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; El Boustani, Ossama; Shen, Yiyu; Maassen, Daniel; van Velzen, Bart; Rousstia, Mohadig; Koster, Ronald; Gajadharsing, John R; Fritzsch, Thomas; Alavi, Morteza; De Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 104-106, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC49661.2025.10904650
    Keywords: ... Base stations;Frequency modulation;Transmitters;Switches;Logic gates;Solid state circuits;Wideband;Signal resolution;Power generation;Switching circuits.

  2. The Efficiency and Power Utilization of Current-Scaling Digital Transmitters
    Mul, Dieuwert P. N.; Bootsman, Robert J.; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Alavi, Morteza S.; Vreede, Leo C. N. de;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 72, Issue 7, pp. 4350-4366, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3336984
    Keywords: ... Switches;Radio frequency;Logic gates;Transmitters;Power generation;Loading;Power amplifiers;Current control;Peak to average power ratio;Current mode;current scaling;digital transmitter (DTX);Doherty;efficiency;multiphase;peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR);polar;power utilization;RF-DAC;signed Cartesian (SC);upconversion.

  3. MP-DPD: Low-Complexity Mixed-Precision Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Digital Predistortion of Wideband Power Amplifiers
    Wu, Yizhuo; Li, Ang; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Singh, Gagan Deep; Chen, Qinyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza; Gao, Chang;
    IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters,
    Volume 34, Issue 6, pp. 817-820, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/LMWT.2024.3386330
    Keywords: ... Power demand;Quantization (signal);Neural networks;Logic gates;Energy efficiency;Wideband;Data models;Digital systems;Deep neural network (DNN);digital predistortion (DPD);digital transmitter (DTX);power amplifier (PA);quantization.

  4. OpenDPD: An Open-Source End-to-End Learning & Benchmarking Framework for Wideband Power Amplifier Modeling and Digital Pre-Distortion
    Wu, Yizhuo; Singh, Gagan Deep; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza; Gao, Chang;
    In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
    pp. 1-5, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS58744.2024.10558162
    Keywords: ... Codes;Transmitters;OFDM;Power amplifiers;Artificial neural networks;Documentation;Benchmark testing;digital pre-distortion;behavioral modeling;deep neural network;power amplifier;digital transmitter.

  5. A Wideband Energy-Efficient Multi-Mode CMOS Digital Transmitter
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 3, pp. 677-690, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3222028
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Clocks;Baseband;Wideband;OFDM;Power generation;Mixers;Balun;Cartesian;CMOS;digital power amplifier (DPA);digital pre-distortion (DPD);digital transmitter (DTX);efficient;load insensitive class-E;Marchand;multi-phase;radio frequency digital-to-analog converter (RF-DAC);reactance compensation;re-entrant;wideband.

  6. A Low-Complexity Digital Predistortion Technique For Digital I/Q Transmitters
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2023 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2023,
    pp. 787-790, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/IMS37964.2023.10187914
    Keywords: ... Microwave measurement;Constellation diagram;Transmitters;Bandwidth;Microwave theory and techniques;Predistortion;Digital pre-distortion;DPD;constellation;mapping;digital transmitter;RF-DAC.

  7. A Wideband Two-Way Digital Doherty Transmitter in 40nm CMOS
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022,
    pp. 975-978, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/IMS37962.2022.9865506
    Keywords: ... Transmitters;Power combiners;OFDM;Power amplifiers;Microwave amplifiers;Wideband;Power generation;Cartesian;class-E;Doherty;efficient;wideband;digital power amplifier;RF-DAC;DPD;DTX;Balun;CMOS.

  8. A 1-to-4GHz Multi-Mode Digital Transmitter in 40nm CMOS Supporting 200MHz 1024-QAM OFDM signals with more than 23dBm/66% Peak Power/Drain Efficiency
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2022 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
    pp. 01-02, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/CICC53496.2022.9772797
    Keywords: ... Transmitters;OFDM;Modulation;Nanoscale devices;Energy efficiency;Delays;Synchronization.

  9. A Wideband Four-Way Doherty Bits-In RF-Out CMOS Transmitter
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; de Vreede, Leo C. N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 56, Issue 12, pp. 3768-3783, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3105542
    Keywords: ... Clocks;OFDM;Logic gates;Wideband;Constellation diagram;Baseband;Timing;50%-LO clock distribution;8-shape inductor/balun;current-mode class-D (CMCD);efficiency enhancement;in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) interleaving;radio frequency digital-to-analog converter (RF-DAC);sign-bit.

  10. 6.2 A 4-Way Doherty Digital Transmitter Featuring 50%-LO Signed IQ Interleave Upconversion with more than 27dBm Peak Power and 40% Drain Efficiency at 10dB Power Back-Off Operating in the 5GHz Band
    Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Shen, Yiyu; Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; Hashemi, Mohsen; Mul, Dieuwert; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2021 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 92-94, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC42613.2021.9365831
    Keywords: ... Wireless communication;Transmitters;Peak to average power ratio;Nanoscale devices;Solid state circuits;Wideband;Standards.

  11. A 24-to-32GHz series-Doherty PA with two-step impedance inverting power combiner achieving 20.4dBm Psat and 38%/34% PAE at Psat/6dB PBO for 5G applications
    Pashaeifar, Masoud; Kumaran, Anil K.; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2021 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC),
    pp. 1-3, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/A-SSCC53895.2021.9634772
    Keywords: ... Power transmission lines;5G mobile communication;Power combiners;Broadband amplifiers;Transmitters;Modulation;Throughput.

  12. A Versatile and Efficient 0.1-to-11 Gb/s CML Transmitter in 40-nm CMOS
    Feng, Jun; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Mehrpoo, Mohammadreza; de Vreede, Leo C.N.; Alavi, Morteza S.;
    In 2021 18th International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC),
    pp. 41-42, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ISOCC53507.2021.9613887
    Keywords: ... Transmitters;Bit error rate;Prototypes;Frequency division multiplexing;Frequency synchronization;Standards;Clocks.

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Last updated: 24 Apr 2024

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