Nanometer Wireless Transceiver Modeling using Verilog-AMS and SystemC

Abstract

This paper presents an original methodology for use of Verilog-AMS and SystemC to model a highly integrated wireless transceiver. Novel structures allow the model to be reconfigurable for extensive early architectural analysis and easy re-mapping to new wireless standards and applications. Matlab plots are used to demonstrate the usefulness of the model simulations in the analysis of complex combined digital and analog functionality such as automatic gain control and DC offset correction. Performance results for the simulations as well as development effort are also presented thus showing how this methodology is well suited to the modeling of integrated nanometer wireless transceivers