European Microwave Week
Hello to all the RF folks out there, I’m pleased to announce that I will be at this year’s European Microwave Week in Rome. Still excited every time I have the opportunity to take part at such events.
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My contribution to the conference is a paper entitled “Integrated RF transformer and power combiner design in 150nm CMOS process”.
It will be presented on Monday Oct. 6th 2014 in the EuMIC Session-01. I’m looking forward seeing you in Rome for some interaction on RF Microwave related topics.
Want to know more about it…. well, here is the abstract of the paper:
An integrated passive power combiner is discussed and characterized based on test structure fabricated in a 150 nm LFoundry CMOS process. The power combiner uses differentially driven coupled transformers as a basic building block. We discuss first the constraint driven synthesis of the transformer itself and the device modeling with a rapid RLCk model extractor. Helic’s electronic design automation (EDA) tools are used for both, synthesis and extraction of the passive devices. The accuracy of the extracted transformer model is proven by comparison to an EM tool. The fabricated power combiner structure is finally extracted with the same EDA toolset and compared to measured data from on-wafer experiments. Good agreement is achieved in all cases proving the accuracy of the proposed synthesis and extraction methodology for complex RF IC designs.
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