EE6240

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The most widely used CAD tool and simulator for RF IC Design in the Industry are Cadence and Spectre respectively. You will be using this tool for your design projects. They are also regularly used by the Analog and Mixed-Signal IC group at IITM. You can find more information about their research work here.\ \ You will be designing your circuits in the IBM 9SF 90nm low-leakage CMOS Process.[Note: noise parameters have been added manually from some other process]\ \ BSIM4 Spectre model parameters: ibm90nm.scs\ Scalable inductor pcell for use with Cadence 6.0: RFIC2013.zip\ \ You should instantiate the 'nbsim4' and 'pbsim4' devices from analogLib and point them to 'CMOSN' and 'CMOSP' models respectively. The above spectre model is all that you need to include in your simulation setup. \

Projects

• Project 1 - LNA Design - due on 04/10/2013
• Project 2 - Mixer Design - due on 25/10/2013
• Project 3 - VCO Design - due on 08/11/2013