Application of Bottom-Up Methodology to RTW VCO

Author

Ben Abdeljelil, Fahd ; Nicolle, B. ; Tatinian, W. ; Carpineto, L. ; Oudinot, J. ; Jacquemod, G.

Author_Institution

LEAT, Valbonne

fYear

2008

fDate

7-9 April 2008

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

50

Abstract

This paper proposes a complete solution for the design and modeling of a switched-capacitor rotary traveling wave voltage controlled oscillator. The main point of the proposed methodology is to get a unique simulation and modeling environment, so we have focused on EDA tools interoperability. As a result, we get a complete flow for a 14.35 GHz VCO design and bottom-up verification, starting from electromagnetic and SPICE simulations and ending to behavioral model including phase noise. A complete hierarchical library including also block-level model is provided.

Keywords

SPICE; phase noise; switched capacitor networks; voltage-controlled oscillators; EDA tools interoperability; RTW VCO; SPICE simulations; block-level model; bottom-up methodology; bottom-up verification; electromagnetic simulations; frequency 14.35 GHz; hierarchical library; phase noise; switched-capacitor rotary; traveling wave voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Inductance; Inverters; Phase locked loops; Phase noise; Power transmission lines; Radio frequency; Semiconductor device modeling; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Bottom-Up; Modeling; RF VCO;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Symposium on VLSI, 2008. ISVLSI '08. IEEE Computer Society Annual

Conference_Location

Montpellier

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3291-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3170-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISVLSI.2008.59

Filename

4556768