Methods of using commercial electromagnetic simulators for microwave and millimeter-wave circuit design and optimization

Author

Jain, Nitin ; Onno, Peter

Author_Institution

Corp. R&D Center, M/A-COM Inc., Lowell, MA, USA

Volume

45

Issue

5

fYear

1997

fDate

5/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

724

Lastpage

746

Abstract

Efficient utilization of commercial electromagnetic (EM) simulators for design and optimization of microwave (MW) and millimeter-wave (MMW) circuits is achieved by classifying design problems into three categories-characterization of circuit elements, optimization of circuit elements, and creation of circuit element libraries such as scalable libraries. Practical aspects of the methods are illustrated by several examples. An equivalent circuit extraction technique suitable for n-port coupled structures is provided. The derived equivalent circuit is useful for extrapolating data, optimization, and deriving scalable models

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; circuit optimisation; equivalent circuits; microwave circuits; millimetre wave circuits; multiport networks; passive networks; circuit element library; data extrapolation; design; electromagnetic simulator; equivalent circuit; microwave circuit; millimeter-wave circuit; n-port coupled structure; optimization; scalable model; Circuit optimization; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Computational modeling; Design optimization; Finite difference methods; Libraries; Microwave circuits; Microwave theory and techniques; Millimeter wave circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.575596

Filename

575596