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Course Description
 | CAD Tools for Analogue and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits and Systems |
Date: from 14 Nov 2001 to 15 Nov 2001
2 day(s)
English Kista, Sweden
1000,00 EURO 600 € (students and phd students)
The growth of wireless services and other telecom applications increases the need for low-cost highly integrated solutions with very demanding performance specifications. This requires the development of intelligent front-end architectures that circumvent the physical limitations posed by the technology. In addition, with the evolution towards ultra deep submicron CMOS technologies, the design of complex systems on a chip (SoC) will emerge which are increasingly mixed-signal designs. The desire to do hand-crafted, one-transistor-at-a-time analog design is increasingly at odds with the current time-to-market constraints and hence the need for more analog design productivity, practical circuit and layout synthesis, and reliable verification at all levels of the mixed-signal hierarchy.
This tutorial will present the recent progress and current state of the art in design tools and methodologies for complex mixed-signal designs as well as for RF IC design. Different aspects will be covered by the different presenters, ranging from techniques and methodologies for analog synthesis both at architectural, circuit and layout level, as well as the recent progress in simulation and modeling for RF designs, as well as methods to analyse substrate noise couplings in mixed-signal ICs. The techniques will be addressed from a designer point of view, so that the attendees can assess how the techniques could be integrated to improve their current design practice
DAY 1 : CAD AND METHODOLOGY FOR ANALOG, RF AND MIXED-SIGNAL IC DESIGN
8.30 : registration
9.00 : High-level design and simulation of mixed-signal telecom systems
Georges Gielen, K.U.Leuven
The design of complex mixed-signal systems-on-a-chip requires new design methodologies and design tools to boost the design productivity needed to meet present time-to-market constraints. New methods and flows for high-level architectural design will be revised, as well as the necessary simulation and modeling tools, with emphasis on efficient simulation of telecom frontends, analog behavioral modeling (and supporting HDL languages) and power/area/noise estimation.
10.30 : coffee break
11.00 : Tools for designing analog building blocks
Georges Gielen, K.U.Leuven
Digital designs gain tremendous leverage from the existence of robust libraries of reusable building blocks, from gates to cores. Analog designs are mostly designed from scratch, and rarely reused without significant manual intervention. Recent work on circuit and physical synthesis for cell-level and subsystem-level analog designs will be covered, with several design examples.
12.30 : lunch break
13.30 : Modeling for RF applications
Georges Gielen, K.U.Leuven
In RF applications devices are operated at very high frequencies. This requires improved modeling of both active and passive devices to produce accurate results. The extensions required to incorporate these effects during simulations will be reviewed.
14.30 : coffee break
15.00 : Simulation techniques for RF design, part I
Jaijeet Roychowdhury, Lucent Bell Labs
This presentation will focus on the recent progress in analysis and simulation techniques for RF circuits. Present RF simulation methods will be reviewed and their accuracy and efficiency will be discussed.
16.30 : end of first day
19.00 : social event/dinner
DAY 2: MODELING AND ANALYSIS FOR RF AND MIXED-SIGNAL ICs
9.00: Simulation techniques for RF design, part II
Jaijeet Roychowdhury, Lucent Bell Labs
This presentation will focus on the recent progress in simulation techniques for RF circuits, with emphasis on dedicated techniques for phase noise analysis. Also macromodeling for RF applications will be covered.
10.30 : coffee break
11.00 : Substrate noise coupling analysis in mixed-signal ICs, part I
Fran?s Clement, Simplex
This presentation will describe the current techniques that are used to analyze the coupling of substrate noise in mixed analog-digital ICs. Both the sources of noise generation, the mechanisms of propagation in different technologies and the methods to analyze the effect will be described. Techniques to reduce the noise coupling will be assessed.
12.30 : lunch break
14.00 : Substrate noise coupling analysis in mixed-signal ICs, part II
Fran?s Clement, Simplex
15.30 : coffee break
16.00 : end of tutorial
Practicing analog, RF and mixed-signal designers who want to learn about the new techniques and methodologies that could boost their design quality and productivity.
CAD professionals responsible for implementing or maintaining analog, RF or mixed-signal tools or flows.
Anyone interested in practical RF or mixed-signal ICs.
Georges Gielen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Jaijeet Roychowdhury, Lucent Bell Labs, Murray Hill, U.S.A.
François Clement, Simplex Solutions, Grenoble, France
DTU, Caroline van Oosterhout Phone: +45 4525 5726 Fax: +45 4593 0216 Email: eurotraining@oersted.dtu.dk
For online registration, please follow the link below
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