Automated Synthesis Procedure of RF Discrete Tuning Differential Capacitance Circuits

The paper presents a RFDSCA automated synthesis procedure. This algorithm determines several RFDSCA circuits from the top-level system specifications all with the same maximum performance. The genetic synthesis tool optimizes a fitness function proportional to the RFDSCA quality factor and uses the...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mendes, Luís (author)
Outros Autores: Pires, E. J. Solteiro (author), Vaz, João C. (author), Rosário, Maria J. (author), Oliveira, P. B. de Moura (author), Machado, J. A. Tenreiro (author), Ferreira, N. M. Fonseca (author)
Formato: bookPart
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2015
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/7011
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/7011
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Resumo:The paper presents a RFDSCA automated synthesis procedure. This algorithm determines several RFDSCA circuits from the top-level system specifications all with the same maximum performance. The genetic synthesis tool optimizes a fitness function proportional to the RFDSCA quality factor and uses the epsiv-concept and maximin sorting scheme to achieve a set of solutions well distributed along a non-dominated front. To confirm the results of the algorithm, three RFDSCAs were simulated in SpectreRF and one of them was implemented and tested. The design used a 0.25 mum BiCMOS process. All the results (synthesized, simulated and measured) are very close, which indicate that the genetic synthesis method is a very useful tool to design optimum performance RFDSCAs.