Digitally-Assisted Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design for Software-Defined Radio

Digitally-Assisted Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design for Software-Defined Radio
Author: Kenichi Okada
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-08-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 144198514X

This book describes the state-of-the-art in RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design for Software Defined Radio (SDR). It synthesizes for analog/RF circuit designers the most important general design approaches to take advantage of the most recent CMOS technology, which can integrate millions of transistors, as well as several real examples from the most recent research results.

Baseband Analog Circuits for Software Defined Radio

Baseband Analog Circuits for Software Defined Radio
Author: Vito Giannini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402065388

This is the first book to describe most of the issues involved in the transition from a single standard to a Software Radio based wireless terminal. The book is both a technology tutorial for beginners as well as a starting point for technical professionals in the communication and IC design industry who are approaching the design of a Software Defined Radio. A complete overview of the actual state-of-art for reconfigurable transceivers is given in detail.

Digitally-Assisted Analog and Analog-Assisted Digital IC Design

Digitally-Assisted Analog and Analog-Assisted Digital IC Design
Author: Xicheng Jiang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015-07-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1316368742

Achieve enhanced performance with this guide to cutting-edge techniques for digitally-assisted analog and analog-assisted digital integrated circuit design. • Discover how architecture and circuit innovations can deliver improved performance in terms of speed, density, power, and cost • Learn about practical design considerations for high-performance scaled CMOS processes, FinFet devices and architectures, and the implications of FD SOI technology • Get up to speed with established circuit techniques that take advantage of scaled CMOS process technology in analog, digital, RF and SoC designs, including digitally-assisted techniques for data converters, DSP enabled frequency synthesizers, and digital controllers for switching power converters. With detailed descriptions, explanations, and practical advice from leading industry experts, this is an ideal resource for practicing engineers, researchers, and graduate students working in circuit design.

VLSI Design and Test for Systems Dependability

VLSI Design and Test for Systems Dependability
Author: Shojiro Asai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 4431565949

This book discusses the new roles that the VLSI (very-large-scale integration of semiconductor circuits) is taking for the safe, secure, and dependable design and operation of electronic systems. The book consists of three parts. Part I, as a general introduction to this vital topic, describes how electronic systems are designed and tested with particular emphasis on dependability engineering, where the simultaneous assessment of the detrimental outcome of failures and cost of their containment is made. This section also describes the related research project “Dependable VLSI Systems,” in which the editor and authors of the book were involved for 8 years. Part II addresses various threats to the dependability of VLSIs as key systems components, including time-dependent degradations, variations in device characteristics, ionizing radiation, electromagnetic interference, design errors, and tampering, with discussion of technologies to counter those threats. Part III elaborates on the design and test technologies for dependability in such applications as control of robots and vehicles, data processing, and storage in a cloud environment and heterogeneous wireless telecommunications. This book is intended to be used as a reference for engineers who work on the design and testing of VLSI systems with particular attention to dependability. It can be used as a textbook in graduate courses as well. Readers interested in dependable systems from social and industrial–economic perspectives will also benefit from the discussions in this book.

Analog Circuit Design for Process Variation-Resilient Systems-on-a-Chip

Analog Circuit Design for Process Variation-Resilient Systems-on-a-Chip
Author: Marvin Onabajo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461422957

This book describes several techniques to address variation-related design challenges for analog blocks in mixed-signal systems-on-chip. The methods presented are results from recent research works involving receiver front-end circuits, baseband filter linearization, and data conversion. These circuit-level techniques are described, with their relationships to emerging system-level calibration approaches, to tune the performances of analog circuits with digital assistance or control. Coverage also includes a strategy to utilize on-chip temperature sensors to measure the signal power and linearity characteristics of analog/RF circuits, as demonstrated by test chip measurements. Describes a variety of variation-tolerant analog circuit design examples, including from RF front-ends, high-performance ADCs and baseband filters; Includes built-in testing techniques, linked to current industrial trends; Balances digitally-assisted performance tuning with analog performance tuning and mismatch reduction approaches; Describes theoretical concepts as well as experimental results for test chips designed with variation-aware techniques.

Silicon Photonics III

Silicon Photonics III
Author: Lorenzo Pavesi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642105033

This book is volume III of a series of books on silicon photonics. It reports on the development of fully integrated systems where many different photonics component are integrated together to build complex circuits. This is the demonstration of the fully potentiality of silicon photonics. It contains a number of chapters written by engineers and scientists of the main companies, research centers and universities active in the field. It can be of use for all those persons interested to know the potentialities and the recent applications of silicon photonics both in microelectronics, telecommunication and consumer electronics market.

Cognitive Radio Receiver Front-Ends

Cognitive Radio Receiver Front-Ends
Author: Bodhisatwa Sadhu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461492963

This book focuses on the architecture and circuit design for cognitive radio receiver front-ends. The authors first provide a holistic explanation of RF circuits for cognitive radio systems. This is followed by an in-depth exploration of existing techniques that can be utilized by circuit designers. Coverage also includes novel circuit techniques and architectures that can be invaluable for designers for cognitive radio systems.

Stochastic Process Variation in Deep-Submicron CMOS

Stochastic Process Variation in Deep-Submicron CMOS
Author: Amir Zjajo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9400777817

One of the most notable features of nanometer scale CMOS technology is the increasing magnitude of variability of the key device parameters affecting performance of integrated circuits. The growth of variability can be attributed to multiple factors, including the difficulty of manufacturing control, the emergence of new systematic variation-generating mechanisms, and most importantly, the increase in atomic-scale randomness, where device operation must be described as a stochastic process. In addition to wide-sense stationary stochastic device variability and temperature variation, existence of non-stationary stochastic electrical noise associated with fundamental processes in integrated-circuit devices represents an elementary limit on the performance of electronic circuits. In an attempt to address these issues, Stochastic Process Variation in Deep-Submicron CMOS: Circuits and Algorithms offers unique combination of mathematical treatment of random process variation, electrical noise and temperature and necessary circuit realizations for on-chip monitoring and performance calibration. The associated problems are addressed at various abstraction levels, i.e. circuit level, architecture level and system level. It therefore provides a broad view on the various solutions that have to be used and their possible combination in very effective complementary techniques for both analog/mixed-signal and digital circuits. The feasibility of the described algorithms and built-in circuitry has been verified by measurements from the silicon prototypes fabricated in standard 90 nm and 65 nm CMOS technology.

Energy-Efficient Communication Processors

Energy-Efficient Communication Processors
Author: Robert Fasthuber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461449928

This book describes a new design approach for energy-efficient, Domain-Specific Instruction set Processor (DSIP) architectures for the wireless baseband domain. The innovative techniques presented enable co-design of algorithms, architectures and technology, for efficient implementation of the most advanced technologies. To demonstrate the feasibility of the author’s design approach, case studies are included for crucial functionality of advanced wireless systems with increased computational performance, flexibility and reusability. Designers using this approach will benefit from reduced development/product costs and greater scalability to future process technology nodes.

Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design

Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design
Author: Trond Ytterdal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0470864346

Bridges the gap between device modelling and analog circuit design. Includes dedicated software enabling actual circuit design. Covers the three significant models: BSIM3, Model 9 &, and EKV. Presents practical guidance on device development and circuit implementation. The authors offer a combination of extensive academic and industrial experience.