Design of a 4.2-to-5.1 GHz ultralow-power complementary class-B/C hybrid-mode VCO in 65-nm CMOS fully supported by EDA tools

R Martins, N Lourenço, N Horta… - … on Circuits and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimal voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) design for ultralow-power (ULP) radios has to
fulfill simultaneously multiple requirements such as frequency tuning range, phase noise …

In-depth design space exploration of 26.5-to-29.5-GHz 65-nm CMOS low-noise amplifiers for low-footprint-and-power 5G communications using one-and-two-step …

L Mendes, JC Vaz, F Passos, N Lourenço… - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) play a significant role in modern millimeter-wave (mmWave)
integrated circuits for fifth-generation (5G) communications systems. However, the proper …

Automatic Design for W-Band Front-End System via Bottom-Up Sizing and Layout Generation

S Yin, R Wang, J Zhang, X Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, electronic design automation methodologies based on hierarchical
multilevel bottom-up (BU) design approaches are emerging and successfully applied for RF …

Accelerating voltage-controlled oscillator sizing optimizations with ANN-based convergence classifiers and frequency guess predictors

J Domingues, A Gusmão, N Horta… - … and Applications to …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic simulation-based sizing approaches are essential in designing radio-frequency
(RF) integrated circuit (IC) blocks for modern applications. However, optimizations …

Speeding-Up Complex RF IC Sizing Optimizations with a Process, Voltage and Temperature Corner Performance Estimator based on ANNs

P Vaz, A Gusmão, N Horta, N Lourenço… - … on Circuits and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automatic sizing of radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) blocks in deep
nanometer technologies has moved towards process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) …

An efficient transformer modeling approach for mm-wave circuit design

F Passos, E Roca, J Sieiro, R Castro-Lopez… - … -International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a Gaussian-process surrogate modeling methodology is used to accurately
and efficiently model transformers, which are still a bottleneck in radio-frequency and …

Paving the Way for the Electronic Design Automation of Power Management Units

C Santos, J Fernandes, M Santos… - 2023 19th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inclusion of automation mechanisms in the intricate design of power management units
(PMUs) is long pursued in industry. This paper carries a discussion on the research lines …

Convergence Classifier and Frequency Guess Predictor Based on ANNs

JLCP Domingues, PJ Vaz, APL Gusmão… - Speeding-Up Radio …, 2023 - Springer
Internet-of-things applications push radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) design in
deep nanometer technologies. Particularly, voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), which play …