Ebook: Low-Power Design Techniques and CAD Tools for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits

Modern System-on-Chip designs are increasingly mixed-signal designs that require efficient systematic design methodologies and supporting computer-aided design (CAD) tools to manage the design complexity in the available design time, that is ever decreasing due to tightening time-to-market constraints. The purpose of Low-Power Design Techniquesand CAD Tools for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits is to provide an overview of very recent research results that have been achieved as part of the Low-Power Initiative of the European Union, in the field of analog, RF and mixed-signal design methodologies and CAD tools. It is a representative sampling of the current state of the art in this area, with special focus on low-power design methodologies and tools for analog and RF circuits and architectures. Concrete designs, mainly for telecommunication applications, such as low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, filters, but also complete transceiver front-ends, are discussed and analyzed in a methodological way, and their modeling and simulation, both at the circuit level and at the architectural level, are treated. In this way, the eleven contributions of this book combine in a unique way designs with methodologies and CAD that will be interesting to designers and CAD developers, both in industry and academia.

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Modern System-on-Chip designs are increasingly mixed-signal designs that require efficient systematic design methodologies and supporting computer-aided design (CAD) tools to manage the design complexity in the available design time, that is ever decreasing due to tightening time-to-market constraints. The purpose of Low-Power Design Techniquesand CAD Tools for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits is to provide an overview of very recent research results that have been achieved as part of the Low-Power Initiative of the European Union, in the field of analog, RF and mixed-signal design methodologies and CAD tools. It is a representative sampling of the current state of the art in this area, with special focus on low-power design methodologies and tools for analog and RF circuits and architectures. Concrete designs, mainly for telecommunication applications, such as low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, filters, but also complete transceiver front-ends, are discussed and analyzed in a methodological way, and their modeling and simulation, both at the circuit level and at the architectural level, are treated. In this way, the eleven contributions of this book combine in a unique way designs with methodologies and CAD that will be interesting to designers and CAD developers, both in industry and academia.

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Modern System-on-Chip designs are increasingly mixed-signal designs that require efficient systematic design methodologies and supporting computer-aided design (CAD) tools to manage the design complexity in the available design time, that is ever decreasing due to tightening time-to-market constraints. The purpose of Low-Power Design Techniquesand CAD Tools for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits is to provide an overview of very recent research results that have been achieved as part of the Low-Power Initiative of the European Union, in the field of analog, RF and mixed-signal design methodologies and CAD tools. It is a representative sampling of the current state of the art in this area, with special focus on low-power design methodologies and tools for analog and RF circuits and architectures. Concrete designs, mainly for telecommunication applications, such as low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, filters, but also complete transceiver front-ends, are discussed and analyzed in a methodological way, and their modeling and simulation, both at the circuit level and at the architectural level, are treated. In this way, the eleven contributions of this book combine in a unique way designs with methodologies and CAD that will be interesting to designers and CAD developers, both in industry and academia.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Motivation, Context and Objectives....Pages 1-7
Analysis and Simulation of RF Subsystems....Pages 9-42
Fast: An Efficient High-Level Dataflow Simulator of Mixed-Signal Front-Ends of Digital Telecom Transceivers....Pages 43-59
Efficient High-Level Simulation of Analog Telecom Frontends....Pages 61-81
High-Level Power Estimation of Analog Front-End Blocks....Pages 83-105
Models and Analysis Techniques for Systematic Design and Verification of Frequency Synthesizers....Pages 107-129
Nonlinear Symbolic Network Analysis: Algorithms and Applications to RF Circuits....Pages 131-154
Approaches to Formal Verification of Analog Circuits....Pages 155-191
A Low Power Bicmos 1 GHZ Super-Regenerative Transceiver for ISM Applications....Pages 193-213
Low-Voltage Switched-Capacitor Filters....Pages 215-250
CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Design....Pages 251-265
Practical Harmonic Oscillator Design....Pages 267-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-294

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Modern System-on-Chip designs are increasingly mixed-signal designs that require efficient systematic design methodologies and supporting computer-aided design (CAD) tools to manage the design complexity in the available design time, that is ever decreasing due to tightening time-to-market constraints. The purpose of Low-Power Design Techniquesand CAD Tools for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits is to provide an overview of very recent research results that have been achieved as part of the Low-Power Initiative of the European Union, in the field of analog, RF and mixed-signal design methodologies and CAD tools. It is a representative sampling of the current state of the art in this area, with special focus on low-power design methodologies and tools for analog and RF circuits and architectures. Concrete designs, mainly for telecommunication applications, such as low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, filters, but also complete transceiver front-ends, are discussed and analyzed in a methodological way, and their modeling and simulation, both at the circuit level and at the architectural level, are treated. In this way, the eleven contributions of this book combine in a unique way designs with methodologies and CAD that will be interesting to designers and CAD developers, both in industry and academia.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Motivation, Context and Objectives....Pages 1-7
Analysis and Simulation of RF Subsystems....Pages 9-42
Fast: An Efficient High-Level Dataflow Simulator of Mixed-Signal Front-Ends of Digital Telecom Transceivers....Pages 43-59
Efficient High-Level Simulation of Analog Telecom Frontends....Pages 61-81
High-Level Power Estimation of Analog Front-End Blocks....Pages 83-105
Models and Analysis Techniques for Systematic Design and Verification of Frequency Synthesizers....Pages 107-129
Nonlinear Symbolic Network Analysis: Algorithms and Applications to RF Circuits....Pages 131-154
Approaches to Formal Verification of Analog Circuits....Pages 155-191
A Low Power Bicmos 1 GHZ Super-Regenerative Transceiver for ISM Applications....Pages 193-213
Low-Voltage Switched-Capacitor Filters....Pages 215-250
CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Design....Pages 251-265
Practical Harmonic Oscillator Design....Pages 267-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-294
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