Electronic Design

CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Second Edition

CMOS technology has dominated the IC business for the last 25 years and will continue to do so for another 25 years, according to the author of CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation. He explains ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Modeling High-Performance Analog And RF Circuits In Nanometer-Scale CMOS

Today’s consumer, communication, and computer electronic devices have clocks, communication interfaces, and high-speed signal-conditioning circuits that operate at radio frequencies (RF). Providing ...
Electronics Weekly

Designing RF for 3G in CMOS

Bluetooth was the proving ground for implementing multi-gigahertz RF transceiver circuits on a cost-effective CMOS process. The success of CMOS RF advocate CSR from Cambridge is testament to that. Yet ...
Nature

Active Inductors in CMOS RF Circuit Design

Active inductors have emerged as a transformative component in CMOS radio frequency (RF) circuit design, effectively replacing traditional passive inductors with active semiconductor networks. By ...
EDN

The PSP Model in RF CMOS Design

As the Penn State Philips (PSP) transistor model is rightly hailed as an excellent alternative to traditional BSIM models for RFIC design, RF designers need to be aware of how PSP models relate to ...
Nature

CMOS Mixers and Low-Power RF Circuit Design

CMOS mixers are integral components in modern radio frequency (RF) circuit design, enabling frequency conversion in wireless systems while prioritising low power consumption. Recent progress in ...
Design-Reuse

Siemens delivers AI- accelerated verification for analog, mixed-signal, RF, memory, library IP and 3D IC designs in Solido Simulation Suite

June 24, 2024 -- Plano, Texas, USA -- Siemens Digital Industries Software today introduced Solido™ Simulation Suite software(“Solido Sim” software), an integrated suite of AI-accelerated SPICE, Fast ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Bringing RFIC Design And Verification Into The Modern Era

For decades, developers of radio frequency (RF) chips and other analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) have used traditional techniques for design and verification. Most RFIC designers ...
EDN

RF-simulation algorithms: Which one is better for IC design?

Today, numerous EDA tools and flows for accurate and efficient RFIC design are commercially available. However, only three algorithms for circuit simulation dominate the industry: transient, PSS ...
Design-Reuse

TriEye Shortens Time to Market for Next-Generation CMOS-Based SWIR Image Sensors with the Cadence Spectre X Simulator

SAN JOSE, Calif., 12 Oct 2020 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that TriEye used the Cadence ® Spectre ® X Simulator to accelerate the design of a next-generation ...
Electronic Design

CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation: Second Edition

As author R. Jacob “Jake” Baker points out in the preface to this comprehensive volume, CMOS technology has dominated the fabrication of ICs for 25 years, and is likely to dominate it for another 25 ...