{"title":"A versatile structural analysis method for analog, digital and mixed-signal circuits","authors":"M. Eick, H. Graeb","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339402","url":null,"abstract":"Analog as well as mixed-signal circuits are subject to many design constraints, e.g., matching constraints. We present a new approach for structural analysis that can handle analog, digital and mixed-signal circuits. It consists of a building block recognition, graph-based analyses and logic function extraction. Experimental results are provided for several digital cell libraries and a mixed-signal circuit. They show that more than 95% of the digital standard cells and a current-mode DAC are handled correctly.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127235174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Martín-Martínez, N. Ayala, R. Rodríguez, M. Nafría, X. Aymerich
{"title":"RELAB: A tool to include MOSFETs BTI and variability in SPICE simulators","authors":"J. Martín-Martínez, N. Ayala, R. Rodríguez, M. Nafría, X. Aymerich","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339386","url":null,"abstract":"RELAB is a new simulation tool for circuit reliability evaluation, based on the physical models of different degradation phenomena. In this work, the RELAB capabilities to include Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) and its variability in SPICE simulators is presented.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114284204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"System-level time-domain behavioral baseband modeling of RF blocks for mixed-signal simulation","authors":"Ihor Harasymiv, Roland Jancke","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339448","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a short survey of existing baseband (BB) signal flow models of linear and nonlinear RF blocks for system-level (SL) time domain (TD) transient simulation using Spice-like simulators. Existing BB models of nonlinear PB amplifier are analyzed and a corrected version of a publicly available model is proposed. A new nonlinear BB model of a mixer based on multiple Fourier series is proposed and tested as Verilog-A model. In comparison to the pass band (PB) mixer model the proposed BB model allows a speedup of transient simulation about 2-3 orders of magnitude and saves also time for verification of RF sub-systems implemented later in top-down design process on transistor level.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128085361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LC-VCO design methodology based on evolutionary algorithms","authors":"P. Pereira, H. Fino, M. Ventim-Neves","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339449","url":null,"abstract":"In his paper the design of LC-VCOs is addressed. Due to the high-density integration needs as well as to low cost fabrication, RF applications are usually implemented in CMOS technology. However, this technology development brought up several issues such as the degradation of on-chip LC tank quality factor, yielding VCO's phase noise limitation. To overcome phase-noise limitations, optimization design methodologies are usually used. Since electromagnetic simulations are timely expensive, model based approaches are needed. In this work the characterization of the oscillator behaviour is guaranteed by a set of analytical models describing each circuit element performance. A set of working examples for UMC130 technology, aiming the VCO phase noise and power consumption optimization, is addressed. The results presented, spotlight the potential of the proposed design methodology, combined with a GA optimization procedure, for an accurate and timely efficient oscillator design. The accuracy of the results is checked against HSPICE/RF simulator.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133206442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Constantinescu, A. Gheorghe, G. Stroe, M. Nitescu, O. Llopis
{"title":"A nonlinear circuit model for a three BAW resonator filter working at high power level","authors":"F. Constantinescu, A. Gheorghe, G. Stroe, M. Nitescu, O. Llopis","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339382","url":null,"abstract":"A nonlinear behavioral circuit model which reproduces both the amplitude-frequency effect and the frequency characteristic of the second harmonic of the output power is developed. This kind of model is presented for the first time in literature, the simulation results being in good agreement with the measurements performed on a pass-band filter built with three AlN bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"333 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123551609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Background offset and gain calibration for time-interleaved ADC using digital sinusoidal calibration signal","authors":"R. Khalil, M. Louerat, R. Petigny, H. Gicquel","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339392","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents background offset and gain calibration for time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (TIADC). The calibration technique depends on detecting the offset and the amplitude of a calibration signal. The detection is based on a simple algorithm performed in the digital part. A digital sinusoidal wave is needed to implement the calibration technique. The calibration technique behaviors are theoretically analysed and verified by simulations. A 12-bit, 4-channel, 800 MS/s TIADC is used as an example.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122022748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Rivadeneyra, J. A. López-Villanueva, R. O'Keeffe, N. Jackson, M. O’Neill, A. Mathewson
{"title":"Frequency response of variants of a cantilever beam","authors":"A. Rivadeneyra, J. A. López-Villanueva, R. O'Keeffe, N. Jackson, M. O’Neill, A. Mathewson","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339446","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing importance of autonomous devices has focused on strategies of energy harvesting in order to provide the required energy for these kinds of applications. One of the possibilities to develop energy harvesting is through piezoelectric materials which can convert mechanical vibrations into electrical energy. An examination of finite element modeling of cantilever beams is discussed here and the advantages and future possibilities for fabrication are investigated. This paper highlights how researchers can create different shapes or fabrication techniques to optimize the resonant frequency based on finite element modeling.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125162936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Dumitrescu, L. Dumitriu, M. Iordache, D. Cordeau, J. Paillot
{"title":"A cad tool for automatic formulation of symbolic state equations of oscillating circuits","authors":"I. Dumitrescu, L. Dumitriu, M. Iordache, D. Cordeau, J. Paillot","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339396","url":null,"abstract":"Beam steering using the synchronization has been highly studied in systems of oscillators. Thus the techniques used to analyze and understand the behavior of coupled microwave oscillators advanced. A new approach to analyze such systems based on the state-space representation is introduced in the paper. A very efficient method implemented on computer to automatically formulate the state equations in symbolic or numeric-symbolic form for the autonomous circuits like the oscillating circuits is presented and an illustrative example is done.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127682804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling carbon nanotube transistors using neural networks approach","authors":"Ahmed Abo-Elhadeed","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339433","url":null,"abstract":"A model for carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) is developed using neural networks approach. This model accurately predicts the I-V characteristics for different structures of CNTFETs. The model is implemented inside the circuit simulator Eldo using its general user defined model (GUDM) template. To confirm the accuracy of the proposed model, the I-V characteristics are compared to device simulation results. The model is also validated using experimental data for both shottky barrier and conventional CNTFETs. The model shows excellent fitting for both the experimental and device simulation data with average percentage error doesn't exceed 1%.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130439986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. B. Ahmad, Namdo Kim, Byeong Min, A. Kalia, M. Ciesielski, Seiyang Yang
{"title":"Scalable parallel event-driven HDL simulation for multi-cores","authors":"T. B. Ahmad, Namdo Kim, Byeong Min, A. Kalia, M. Ciesielski, Seiyang Yang","doi":"10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339456","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-core processors have become common in current computing platforms. Today, most of multi-core workstations and PCs have adopted NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) advanced memory architecture for high performance and scalability. In response, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) community has applied significant effort to parallelize many EDA algorithms with some success. However, event-driven simulation of designs modeled in HDL (Hardware Description Language) has not achieved meaningful progress so far. This paper proposes a highly scalable parallel, event-driven HDL simulation method, based upon accurate stimulus prediction. The paper presents the basic idea of this approach and discusses why this new method is ideally positioned for achieving high parallelism with NUMA architecture.","PeriodicalId":181205,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129197714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}