Dual-Control Self-Healing Architecture for High-Performance Radio SoCs

This article discusses a self-healing 60-GHz transceiver architecture which employs information collected from on-chip sensors to intelligently adjust various tuning knobs and significantly improve the post-healing performance yield.

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