Franck Badets received the M.Sc. degree in electronics from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique et de Radioélectricité de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France, in 2000. During his doctoral dissertation, he was engaged in research on the design of RF injection-locked oscillators in both BiCMOS and CMOS technologies. In 2000, he joined the Central Research and Devlopment RF Design Group, STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France, where he was in charge of the development of new architectures of frequency synthesizers and RF transmitters in the 1–10-GHz frequency range and where he has been engaged in research on the design of telecommunication chips for space applications since 2008.