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

Piet Wambacq, Georges Gielen, John Gerrits9780792374329, 0792374320

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 Techniques and 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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Table of contents :
Preliminaries……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
List of Figures……Page 12
List of Tables……Page 20
Contributing Authors……Page 22
Foreword……Page 26
Introduction……Page 32
1. Motivation, context and objectives……Page 36
2. Analysis and simulation of RF subsystems……Page 44
3. FAST: an efficient high-level dataflow simulator of mixed-signal frontends of digital telecom Transceivers……Page 78
4. Efficient high-level simulation of analog telecom frontends……Page 96
5. High-level power estimation of analog front-end blocks……Page 118
6. Models and Analysis Techniques for Systematic Design and Verification of Freqency Synthesizers……Page 142
7. Nonlinear Symbolic Network……Page 166
8. Approaches to Formal Verification of Analog Circuits……Page 190
9. A Low Power BiCMOS 1 GHz Super-Regenerative Transceiver for ISM Applications……Page 228
10. Low-Voltage Switched-Capacitor Filters……Page 250
11. CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Design……Page 286
12. Practical Harmonic Oscillator Design……Page 302
References……Page 325
Index……Page 326