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

本研究探索了设计和仿真环境的方法和技术，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和分析能力，以满足高频设计的需求。分析能力包括射频电路的周期性稳态解，周期性稳态噪声和畸变的计算，衬底耦合和电热相互作用。研究分为三个方面：(i)开发集成器件-电路-行为仿真环境的新分析能力；（ii）改进模拟器性能，使其对高性能和/或高频模拟电路的设计者有价值；（iii）将模拟器应用于实际设计问题，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，并将其应用于现实生活中的设计示例。

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.