The design of ultra-wideband (UWB) low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) require additional circuit design principles, which differ from those used in conventional LNAs. The design of a low-dc-power-consumption SiGe HBT LNA cov...
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A new approach to achieve a switched-capacitor multiply-by-two gain-stage with reduced sensitivity to capacitors' mismatches is presented in this paper. It is based on sampling fully differential input signals ont...
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Full-wave EM simulations are computationally expensive given the complexity of packaging structures in modern mixed signal systems. Fast methods such as the transmission matrix method are inaccurate as they do not mod...
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Full-wave EM simulations are computationally expensive given the complexity of packaging structures in modern mixed signal systems. Fast methods such as the transmission matrix method are inaccurate as they do not model discontinuities such as metal edges and gaps. In this paper, simple models for the edge effect and gap coupling are developed for the finite difference frequency domain method. Results are presented comparing the accuracy of the proposed method with full-wave simulations and measurements
Although multi-finger MOS structures have demonstrated very attractive behaviors for high-frequency analog circuit applications, the shared drain and source regions for adjacent gate fingers have led to current crowdi...
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Failure analysis of semiconductor device is becoming increasingly difficult as VLSI technology evolves toward smaller features and semiconductor device structures become more complex. Especially considering that the d...
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Failure analysis of semiconductor device is becoming increasingly difficult as VLSI technology evolves toward smaller features and semiconductor device structures become more complex. Especially considering that the defective area obtained through diagnosis pin-pointing faulty sites is not the same size as the area subjected to physical analysis, and this disparity becomes more pronounced as feature sizes shrink. This prompted us to develop an extremely fine scaled SEM mechanical probing system permitting identification of minute fault sites. The development involved a number of related projects including investigation of a precision probe and stage mechanism that can deal with submicron semiconductor devices, a six-probe mechanism for expanded capabilities of performing inverter measurements and precision single transistor measurements, a probe and sample exchange mechanism that works while under vacuum to achieve high throughput, and a robust CAD navigation system. The system is now ready and available for practical application to 65-nm feature devices, and can be readily adapted to at least the next couple of generation nodes.
This paper presents the development of a hierarchical methodology for speeding-up a symbolic trajectory evaluation (STE) based verification flow, using "program slicing" techniques. An overview of the propos...
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This paper presents the development of a hierarchical methodology for speeding-up a symbolic trajectory evaluation (STE) based verification flow, using "program slicing" techniques. An overview of the proposed methodology is described, along with the details of a prototype tool that has been developed to automate the approach. The tool, called FACTOR, has been successfully applied to reduce the size of the RTL implementation of a floating-point unit in an Intelreg Pentiumreg 4 processor model needed for formally verifying an embedded module. The existing proof specification for the module was validated using Forte, Intel's STE tool, on both the original and the reduced model. A comparison of the results demonstrates the effectiveness of the methodology, and its immense potential to scale up the verification flow to larger design sizes
Multimedia applications are driving wireless network operators to add high-speed data services such as Edge (E-GPRS), WCDMA (UMTS) and WLAN (IEEE 802.11a,b,g) to the existing network. This creates the need for multi-m...
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A new approach to achieve a switched-capacitor multiply-by-two gain-stage with reduced sensitivity to capacitors' mismatches is presented in this paper. It is based on sampling fully differential input signals ont...
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A new approach to achieve a switched-capacitor multiply-by-two gain-stage with reduced sensitivity to capacitors' mismatches is presented in this paper. It is based on sampling fully differential input signals onto both plates of the input capacitors rather than sampling onto one plate of the capacitors with the other tied to a reference. It uses one operational amplifier (op-amp) in two phases to produce the gain of two (times2). Comparing to the conventional multiply-by-two gain-stage, the mismatches between the capacitors has a much smaller influence on the accuracy of the gain of two (times2). Analytical and circuit-level analysis of the architecture and the conventional structure are presented using a generic 0.35mum CMOS technology
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