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...

this paper presents a design of an uwb downconversion integrated cmos resistive ring mixer with linear voltage regulator (lvr), to supply required biasing voltages for the mixer section. the designed mixer circuit has been optimized for using in heart rate extraction system with microwave doppler radar at 2.4ghz frequency. this mixer needs 2 dc bias voltages equal to 0.5 and 1 volts for its bes...

Design and fabrication uncertainties have become an important issue in nano-scale integrated circuit design. Such uncertainties are typically randomly distributed, as described by probability density functions extracted from measurements. Such device-level uncertainties can propagate to the upper circuit level, leading to significant variations in circuit performances (such as power dissipation...

A bolometer thermometer with a thermal capacity C is coupled to a temperature T. 0 through a heat conductivity G and receives the power.Bolometers made with a square mesh structure can be assembled. Show a wide feature of noise not explained by the basic theory. A bolometer is a device for measuring the power of incident electromagnetic radiation via the heating of a material with a temperature...

Fault simulation for sequential circuits numbers among the highly compute-intensive tasks in the integrated circuit design process. In the quest for rapid design turn-around, parallelization has been proposed to speed fault simulation. In this paper, we introduce ProperPROOFS, a parallel extension of the PROOFS fault simulation package. ProperPROOFS exploits parallelism based on fault partition...

The integrated circuit design of a switched-capacitor filter for Bluetooth specifications is described. It was based on the optimum allocation of poles and zeros to generate a transfer function with unequal numerator and denominator orders, so that a direct-form structure with reduced number of opamps and low sensitivity to capacitor ratio errors were obtained. It was designed for implementatio...

This paper examines the extension of constructive libraryaware logic synthesis to the physical placement stage of integrated circuit design. Constructive logic synthesis differs from traditional synthesis approaches in that it builds a circuit netlist incrementally starting from the primary inputs and proceeding towards the primary outputs. In each iteration of this procedure, the semantic stru...

Increasing digital system complexity and integration density motivate automation of the integrated circuit design process. High-level synthesis is a promising method of increasing designer productivity. Continued process scaling and increasing integration density result in increased power consumption, power density, and temperature. High-level synthesis for integrated circuit (IC) power and the...

During the past few decades advances in semiconductor technology have had only modest implications for the design and verification of integrated systems. While "deep-submicron" effects created new challenges for guaranteeing electrical integrity and necessitated the bundling of traditionally separated design steps such as logic synthesis and physical layout, the general integrated circuit desig...