CAREER: An Integrated Technology/Circuit CAD Environment for High Performance Communication Systems

本研究探讨的方法和技术的设计和仿真环境的目标应用是高性能和高频通信电路。在仿真环境中，设计人员可以访问一套不同精度的模型，并获得满足高频设计需求的分析功能。 分析能力包括RF电路的稳态解、稳态噪声和失真的计算、衬底耦合和寄生相互作用。该研究分为三个方面：（一）开发新的分析能力的集成器件电路行为仿真环境;（二）提高仿真器的性能，使它是有价值的高性能和/或高频模拟电路的设计师，及（iii）应用程序的仿真器现实的设计问题，特别强调RFIC。正在开发一个虚拟实验室环境，为学生提供电路/器件仿真和工具开发方面的培训，并将其应用于真实的设计实例。

This research explores methods and techniques for a design and simulation environment with the target application being high performance and high frequency communication circuits. Within the simulation environment a designer will have access to a suite of models of varying accuracy and to analysis capabilities that address the needs of high frequency design. The analysis capabilities include periodic-steady state solution for RF circuits, calculation of noise and distortion in the periodic-steady state, substrate coupling and electrothermal interactions. The research is partitioned into three areas: (i) development of new analysis capabilities for an integrated device-circuit- behavioral simulation environment; (ii) improvement of simulator performance so that it is valuable to designers of high performance and/or high frequency analog circuits, and (iii) application of the simulator to realistic design problems with particular emphasis on RFICs. A virtual lab environment is being developed to provide students training in circuit/device simulation and tool development with applications to real life design examples.