A fast and rigorous synthesis procedure for (monolithic) millimeterwave integrated circuit layout

Author

Thieme, M.O. ; Biebl, E.M.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztechnick der Technischen, Munchen Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1997

Firstpage

1009

Abstract

A new versatile and efficient procedure for designing (monolithic) millimeterwave integrated circuits is presented. It is based on a novel supergrid method (SGM). The advantage of this new method is the integration of a MoM simulation and a simplex optimization scheme, which saves 80% of computation time and up to 90% of computer memory. Thus, workstations and PCs instead of supercomputers can be used for the synthesis of complex millimeterwave integrated circuit and antenna layouts. To demonstrate the capability of the method, a novel circularly polarized (CP) integrated W-band detector antenna was designed and experimentally characterized.

Keywords

CAD; MIMIC; circuit layout CAD; circuit optimisation; electrical engineering computing; integrated circuit layout; method of moments; millimetre wave antennas; EHF; MIMIC layout; MM-wave antenna layouts; MoM simulation; circularly polarized antenna; integrated W-band detector antenna; integrated circuit layout; monolithic millimeter-wave ICs; simplex optimization scheme; supergrid method; synthesis procedure; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Integrated circuit layout; Integrated circuit synthesis; Monolithic integrated circuits; Optimization methods; Personal communication networks; Supercomputers; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1997., IEEE MTT-S International

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3814-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1997.602972

Filename

602972