A behavioral model development methodology for microwave components and integration in VHDL-AMS

✍ Scribed by Ginés Doménech-Asensi; Juan Hinojosa; Juan Martínez-Alajarín

• Book ID: 104051304
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 422 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0026-2692
• DOI: 10.1016/j.mejo.2007.03.017

✦ Synopsis

The new generation of system-on-chip (SoC) incorporates digital, analogue, radiofrequency (RF)/microwave and mixed-signal components. Therefore, novel design methodologies must be developed to direct the design of these mixed-technology systems, which will have to include accurate behavioral libraries of devices and processes. Thus, this paper describes a behavioral modeling approach which generates accurate empirical models for RF/microwave devices and that can be easily integrated into a VHDL-AMS simulator. This approach is applied to a microwave tunable phase shifter and it is illustrated by the development of a VHDL-AMS model library for RF/microwave applications.