An accurate SPICE simulation of CMOS MMICs using fully software-based parameter extraction

Author

Kim, K.H. ; Kwon, D.H. ; Park, H.I. ; Kim, J.W. ; Hwang, S.W. ; Kim, S.W. ; Park, J.W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

55

Abstract

An efficient and accurate simulation technique of CMOS MMICs using fully software-based parameter extraction is presented. The CMOS MMIC is divided into several blocks consisting of the board interconnection, the chip package block, and the internal MMIC circuit block. The electrical parameters of the board and the package are extracted purely from simulations. The impedance matching of the RF port has been achieved simply by using the simulated input impedance of the chip. The pure SPICE simulation of a whole L-band CMOS MMIC can reproduce the measured result within a reasonable error range

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MMIC frequency convertors; SPICE; equivalent circuits; field effect MMIC; impedance matching; CMOS MMICs; L-band CMOS MMIC; RF port; accurate SPICE simulation; board interconnection; chip package block; down-convertor chip; equivalent circuit; fully software-based parameter extraction; impedance matching; internal MMIC circuit block; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Impedance matching; Integrated circuit interconnections; L-band; MMICs; Packaging; Parameter extraction; Radio frequency; SPICE;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2000, 2nd International Conference on. ICMMT 2000

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5743-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2000.895618

Filename

895618