Co-simulation of RFIC with bondwire antenna via retarded PEEC method

Author

Zhang, Y. ; Fong, N.H.W. ; Ng, D.C.W. ; Wong, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 May 2012

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

232

Abstract

We present an antenna modeling method based on partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) theory. The antenna is modeled as an equivalent circuit of lumped circuit elements, which enables circuit co-simulation between the antenna and circuits in both time and frequency domains. Antenna radiation is captured as an equivalent radiation resistor. For verification, a 2.4-GHz transmitter with bondwire antenna was implemented in a standard digital 0.35μm CMOS technology. Measurement shows good agreement with the proposed model. This model can be applied to any other on-chip electromagnetic structures.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; antenna radiation patterns; antennas; equivalent circuits; radio transmitters; radiofrequency integrated circuits; CMOS technology; RFIC; antenna modeling; antenna radiation; bondwire antenna; equivalent radiation resistor; frequency 2.4 GHz; lumped circuit elements; on-chip electromagnetic structures; partial element equivalent circuit; retarded PEEC method; size 0.35 mum; transmitter; Equivalent circuits; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seoul

ISSN

0271-4302

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0218-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271751

Filename

6271751