Computer-aided design of a BPSK spread-spectrum chip set

Author

Jain, Rajeev ; Samueli, Henry ; Yang, Paul T. ; Chien, Charles ; Chen, Gloria G. ; Lau, Linda K. ; Chung, Bong-Young ; Cohen, Etan G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

27

Issue

1

fYear

1992

fDate

1/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

58

Abstract

The design of a binary-phase shift-keyed (BPSK) spread-spectrum chip set with an integrated CAD environment called VANDA is described. VANDA uses the functional compiler concept to integrate system and physical designs, thus allowing complex high-performance integrated circuit chips to be implemented easily. Three functional compilers have been designed and implemented for the design of a spread-spectrum transceiver: a pseudonoise (PN) generator compiler, a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) compiler, and a Costas loop compiler. Three test chips for a BPSK digital intermediate frequency (IF) spread-spectrum system generated by these compilers have been fabricated and tested. Details of each of the functional compilers and the test chips are described. In addition, the measurement results for digital IF transceiver test boards constructed using these chips are presented

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; circuit layout CAD; frequency synthesizers; noise generators; phase shift keying; spread spectrum communication; transceivers; BPSK; Costas loop; VANDA; binary-phase shift keying; digital IF transceiver test boards; direct digital frequency synthesizer; functional compilers; integrated CAD environment; layout CAD; physical designs; pseudonoise generator; silicon compilers; spread-spectrum chip set; spread-spectrum transceiver; system design; test chips; Baseband; Binary phase shift keying; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS process; Circuit testing; Design automation; Frequency synthesizers; Radio frequency; Semiconductor device measurement; Spread spectrum communication; System testing; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.109556

Filename

109556