A SAW-less RF-SoC for cellular IoT supporting EC-GSM-IoT −121.7 dBm sensitivity through EGPRS2A 592 kbps throughput

The latest extended-coverage (EC-GSM-IoT) and high-throughput (EGPRS2A) enhancements make GSM competitive to LTE-based cIoT standards such as NB-IoT with the advantage of global coverage today. This work introduces the first fully-integrated RF-SoC supporting the complete GSM standard family ranging from EC-GSM-IoT through EGPRS2A. The RF-SoC achieves −121.7 dBm receiver sensitivity and peak data rates close to 600 kbps enabling a broad range of IoT applications.