Low-Power Design Techniques and CAD Tools for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits

This unique book provides an overview of the current state of the art and very recent research results that have been achieved as part of the Low-Power Initiative of the European Union, in the field of analogue, RF and mixed-signal design methodologies and CAD tools.

Modern System-on-Chip designs are increasingly mixed-signal designs that require efficient systematic design methodologies and supporting computer-aided design (CAD) tools to manage the design complexity in the available design time, that is ever decreasing due to tightening time-to-market constraints. The purpose of Low-Power Design Techniques and CAD Tools for Analog and RF Integrated Circuits is to provide an overview of very recent research results that have been achieved as part of the Low-Power Initiative of the European Union, in the field of analog, RF and mixed-signal design methodologies and CAD tools. It is a representative sampling of the current state of the art in this area, with special focus on low-power design methodologies and tools for analog and RF circuits and architectures. Concrete designs, mainly for telecommunication applications, such as low-noise amplifiers, oscillators, filters, but also complete transceiver front-ends, are discussed and analyzed in a methodological way, and their modeling and simulation, both at the circuit level and at the architectural level, are treated. In this way, the eleven contributions of this book combine in a unique way designs with methodologies and CAD that will be interesting to designers and CAD developers, both in industry and academia.

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This book is the second in a series on novel low power design architectures, methods, and design practices, and the result of a European project to reduce the power consumption of electronic systems. The efficient design of analog or mixed-signal integrated circuits is particularly necessary for the front end interfaces of systems-on-a-chip. The 11 chapters present analysis and simulation techniques for RF subsystems, a way of constructing analog power estimator functions, models for verification of frequency synthesizers, algorithms for nonlinear symbolic network analysis, low voltage switched capacitor filters, and a super-regenerative transceiver. Most of the examples involve receivers for digital telecommunications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)