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definition immediately results in a
very misleading comparison table,
especially if the normalization used
is omitted. Unfortunately, several
comparison tables of this kind can be
found to date in the literature. Therefore, while we wait for the 5G standard to be released, it is important to
clearly indicate the equation that is
used to calculate EVM.
Well, that last argument is valid
even after the 5G standard is put
into place ...

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About the Authors
Marco Vigilante (marco.vigilante@
esat.kuleuven.be) received the B.S.

While we wait for the 5G standard to be
released, it is important to clearly indicate
the equation that is used to calculate EVM.
and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Università di Modena,
Italy, in 2010 and 2012, respectively.
He is currently working as a research
assistant at the MICAS laboratories
of the KU Leuven toward a Ph.D.
degree in the field of high-performance analog building blocks for
m m - w av e transceivers designed
in deep-scaled CMOS. He received
the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Predoctoral Achievement Award for
2016-2017 and the 2017 IEEE RFIC
Symposium Best Student Paper Award,
third place.
Earl McCune (emc2@wirelessand
highspeed.com) is a professor of sustainable wireless systems at TU Delft.
He received his B.S. degree from the
University of California, Berkeley, his
M.S. degree from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. degree from the
University of California, Davis. His
experience in RF circuits, signals,
and systems goes back more than
40 years. During his career he has
founded two Silicon Valley startups.
The second startup, Tropian, did
switch-based RF transmitters from
1996 and was acquired by Panasonic
ten years later. He retired from Panasonic in 2008 as a corporate technology fellow. He has 88 issued U.S.
patents. He is the author of Practical
Digital Wireless Signals and Dynamic
Power Supply Transmitters, both from
Cambridge University Press. He has
been an IEEE Microwave Theory and
Techniques Society Distinguished Lecturer since 2013.
Patrick Reynaert (patrick.reyn
aert@esat.kuleuven.be) received the

master of industrial sciences in
electronics (Ing.) from the Karel
de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerpen,
Belgium, in 1998 and both the master of electrical engineering (Ir.)
and the Ph.D. in engineering science (Dr.) from the University of
Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in
2001 and 2006, respectively. During 2006-2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of
California, Berkeley. Since October
2007, he has been a professor with
KU Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering. His main research
interests include mm-wave and THz
CMOS circuit design, high-speed
circuits, and RF power amplifiers.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE
and chair of the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society Benelux Chapter. He
serves or has served on the technical program committees of several
international conferences including the IEEE International SolidState Circuits Conference, European
Solid-State Circuits Conference, IEEE
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Symposium, Conference on Ph.D.
Research in Microelectronics and
Electronics, and IEEE International
Electron Devices Meeting. He has
served as associate editor for IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems
I and as guest editor for IEEE Journal
of Solid-State Circuits. He received
the 2011 TSMC-Europractice Innovation Award, the ESSCIRC-2011 Best
Paper Award, and the 2014 2nd Bell
Labs Prize.

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