Part I. Introduction to Digital Front-End: 1. Introduction to wireless communications and digital broadcasting Hongxiang Li, Guanying Ru, Siqian Liu, Hui Liu and Jenq-Neng Hwang; 2. Basic principles and protocols of digital wireless communications Dimitra I. Kaklamani and Panagiotis K. Gkonis; 3. Digital front end and system overview in wireless communications Eduard Bertran and Maurizio Pagani; 4. System overview and front end technologies in digital broadcasting Francesc Tarres and Eduard Bertran; 5. Digital front end for multiple standards and multimode compatibility Eduard Bertran; Part II. DPD and CFR: 6. General principles and design overview of digital predistortion Neil Braithwaite; 7. Power amplifier nonlinear modeling for digital predistortion Gabriel Montoro and Pere L. Gilabert; 8. Look-up-table based digital predistortion schemes and implementation Pere L. Gilabert and Gabriel Montoro; 9. Digital predistortion and its combination with crest factor reduction Anding Zhu; 10. Adaptive digital baseband predistortion: design and implementation Hua Qian and G. Tong Zhou; 11. Crest factor reduction techniques Nuno Borges Carvalho and Wohoon Jang; Part III. DUC, DDC, ADC, DAC and NCO: 12. Digital down-conversion and up-conversion: theory and implementation Yue Zhang, Taiwen Tang, Kok-Keong Loo, Ben Allen and Dayou Li; 13. A/D and D/A data conversion for wireless communications transceivers Jerzy D¿browski; 14. Advanced quadrature sigma-delta modulator designs for A/D interface Mikko Valkama, Jaakko Marttila and Markus Allén; 15. Digital suppression of A/D interface nonlinearities Mikko Valkama, Markus Allén and Jaakko Marttila; Part IV. Digital Calibration, Imbalance Compensation and Error Corrections: 16. Digital compensation and calibration of I/Q gain and phase imbalances Lauri Anttila, Yaning Zou and Mikko Valkama; 17. Joint digital predistortion of I/Q modulator and power amplifier impairments Mikko Valkama and Lauri Anttila; 18. Diversity and error compensation in OFDM transceivers: principles and implementation Tomohisa Wada; 19. Front-end architectures and impairment corrections in multi-mode and multi-antenna systems G. Villemaud, J. Verdier, M. Gautier, I. Burciu and P. F. Morlat; Part V. Circuits and System Integration in Digital Front-End: 20. Integration and interface of digital front-end with analog front-end Steven Loh; 21. Circuits and systems for digital front-ends to support multiple wireless standards Imtinan Elahi and Khurram Muhammad; 22. Programming models and implementation platforms for software defined radio configuration Tanguy Risset, Riadh Ben Abdallah, Antoine Fraboulet and Jerome Martin; 23. Programmable discrete-time integrated receiver front-ends Norm Filiol, Robert Klett and Thomas Riley; 24. Multi-port front-end and transceivers for V-band multi-gigabit/s communication systems S. O. Tatu, E. Moldovan and S. Affes; 25. Cross-layer design and digital front-end for cognitive wireless link M. Gautier, G. Villemaud, Cedric Lévy-Bencheton, Dominique Noguet and Tanguy Risset.