Until recently, integrated circuit design was based on the following contract between design andmanufacturing: designs are to follow a set of manufacturing-driven constraints (commonly known as ‘design rules’), and manufacturing is to meet the performance and yield targets in producing the specified design. This arrangement worked for many years until the designs of sub-100nmnodes came along, w...

In this paper, we look at different possibilities and advantages of our early proposed hybrid planar and nonradiative dielectric (NRD) guide technology in the design of various millimeter-wave circuits. First of all, an overview of the NRD guide technology progress is presented. It indicates that the hybrid planar/NRD-guide (HP/NRDG) technology provides a straightforward assembly of MMIC circui...

In present day society where communication technologies are advancing at spiral rate, the need for efficient integrated circuit design to transmit and receive signals at unlicensed frequency spectrum is inevitable. At receiving front end, the low noise amplifier design, being the first building block to receive the signal puts a tremendous challenge on modern day radio frequency engineers to me...