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28 RF MEMS CircuitDesign for Wireless Communications
2
Elements of RFCircuit Design
2.1 Introduction
The design of RF MEMS circuits for wireless applications ... practicing RF and microwave engineers, and MEMS
device researchers who are already familiar with the fundamentals of both RF
MEMS and traditional RF and microwavecircuit design.
Chapter 1 of RF MEMS Circuit ... principles of RF and microwave electronics, as well as on
the novelty of RF MEMS devices. Although, for design purposes, RF MEMS
devices are dealt with via the abstraction of design- oriented circuit...
... E
2
max
Allen and Holberg - CMOS Analog CircuitDesign Page II.0-3
OBJECTIVE
• Provide an understanding of CMOS technology sufficient to enhance
circuit design.
• Characterize passive components ... Holberg - CMOS Analog CircuitDesign II.5-6
IMPROVED LAYOUT METHODS FOR CAPACITORS
Corner clipping:
Clip
corners
Street-effect compensation:
Allen and Holberg - CMOS Analog CircuitDesign Page II.1-6
Etching
Etching ... Systems
SIMPLE
COMPLEX
Introduction
Allen and Holberg - CMOS Analog CircuitDesign Page I.2-2
DISCRETE VS. INTEGRATED ANALOG CIRCUIT DESIGN
Activity/Item Discrete Integrated
Component Accuracy Well...
... DQIF, through physical design and characterisation of
the core blocks
Low-power RFdesign techniques in standard CMOS digital processes
RF design tools and framework; PAPRICA Design Kit
Demonstration ... Publishers
Boston/Dordrecht/London
xvi
PRINCIPLES OF ASYNCHRONOUS CIRCUIT DESIGN
The following list describes the objectives of the 20 projects. It is sorted by
decreasing funding budget.
CRAFT CMOS Radio Frequency CircuitDesign for Wireless ... components. If this equivalent circuit model is speed-independent,
then the circuit is delay-insensitive.
Unfortunately the class of delay-insensitive circuits is rather small. Only
circuits composed of...
... 159
8.1 Introduction 159
8.2 Design Style #1 160
8.3 Design Style #2 (Stored Output) 168
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circuit, and of an ARCHITECTURE, which describes how the circuit should func-
tion. ... expected.
1.5 Design Examples
As mentioned in the preface, the book is indeed a design- oriented approach to the
task of teaching VHDL. The integration between VHDL and Digital Design is
achieved ... 1
TLFeBOOK
I CIRCUIT DESIGN
TLFeBOOK
ter, while sequential code is treated in another; data types are discussed in one chap-
ter, while operators and attributes are in another; what is at the circuit...
... Communications Circuits 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Lower Frequency Analog Design and Microwave
Design Versus Radio Frequency Integrated
Circuit Design 2
1.2.1 Impedance Levels for Microwave and ... simple circuits to
minimize circuit area, but also low power dissipation to maximize battery life.
1.2 Lower Frequency Analog Design and Microwave Design
Versus Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
RFIC ... dissipation.
Dealing with design constraints is what keeps the RFIC designer employed.
The focus of this book will be how to design and build the major circuit
blocks that make up the RF portion of a radio...
... and circuits can even be produced by our foundry partners. All of the
trim circuitry tend to scale with the process features so that as the process and the amplifi er circuit shrink,
the trim circuit ...
that attractive a process for linear amplifi ers, process and circuitdesign make progressed to the point that
quite reasonable performance can be obtained from CMOS op amps.
One particularly ... 1-2: Op Amp Specifi cations
DigiTrim ™ Technology
DigiTrim is a technique which adjusts circuit offset performance by programming digitally weighted
current sources, in essence a DAC. This technique...
... VOLTAGE REFERENCES,
AND
TRANSLINEAR CIRCUITS
Performance
of
Sample-and-Hold Circuits
334
MOS Sample-and-Hold Basics
336
Examples of CMOS
S/H
Circuits
343
Bipolar and BiCMOS Sample ...
Integrated -Circuit
Devices
and
Modelling
In this chapter, the operation and modelling of semiconductor devices are described.
Although it is possible to do simple integrated -circuit design with ... connected to the most negativc voltage in
a
microcircuit.
Ln
analog circuits,
this
might be the negative power supply. but in digital
circuits
it
is
normally ground or
0
V.
This
connection...
... gate-source voltage.
In
most circuit applications, noncutoff
MOS-
FET
transistors are operated in strong inversion, with
Veff
>
100
mV
(many
prudent
circuit designers use a
minimum ... early electronic years, the majority
of
microcircuits were realized using bipolar-
junction transistors
(BJTs). However, in
the
late 1970s, microcircuits that used MOS
1.3
Advanced MOS Modelling ...
MOS
MODEWNG
In this section,
we
look at three advanced modelling concepts that a microcircuit designer
is
likely to encounter-short-channel effects, subthreshold operation, and leakage...
... not only in the design of analog
circuits as already done, but also in the digital design process. The great challenge is
to assure the functionality of high complex digital circuits with respect ... conditions and does provide
the circuit developer with certain design information. For example, the designer can
determine whether the leakage current of a given cell or circuit is greater than a key
threshold ... variations
on the performance of a design. In Chap. 5, some application examples will show
how to make a good choice under the available methods and apply them for
special designs. The chapters...