Title :
Application of Bottom-Up Methodology to RTW VCO
Author :
Ben Abdeljelil, Fahd ; Nicolle, B. ; Tatinian, W. ; Carpineto, L. ; Oudinot, J. ; Jacquemod, G.
Author_Institution :
LEAT, Valbonne
Abstract :
This paper proposes a complete solution for the design and modeling of a switched-capacitor rotary traveling wave voltage controlled oscillator. The main point of the proposed methodology is to get a unique simulation and modeling environment, so we have focused on EDA tools interoperability. As a result, we get a complete flow for a 14.35 GHz VCO design and bottom-up verification, starting from electromagnetic and SPICE simulations and ending to behavioral model including phase noise. A complete hierarchical library including also block-level model is provided.
Keywords :
SPICE; phase noise; switched capacitor networks; voltage-controlled oscillators; EDA tools interoperability; RTW VCO; SPICE simulations; block-level model; bottom-up methodology; bottom-up verification; electromagnetic simulations; frequency 14.35 GHz; hierarchical library; phase noise; switched-capacitor rotary; traveling wave voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Inductance; Inverters; Phase locked loops; Phase noise; Power transmission lines; Radio frequency; Semiconductor device modeling; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Bottom-Up; Modeling; RF VCO;
Conference_Titel :
Symposium on VLSI, 2008. ISVLSI '08. IEEE Computer Society Annual
Conference_Location :
Montpellier
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3291-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3170-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISVLSI.2008.59
