A Complete Coplanar Element Library in Commercially Available Foundry Process for Millimeter-wave Integrated Circuit Design

Author

Bessemoulin, A. ; Sedler, M. ; Massler, H. ; Haydl, W.H. ; Geiger, D. ; Brugger, H. ; Quentin, P. ; Schlechtweg, M.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), TullastraÃ\x9fe 72, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany. Ph. (49) 761 5159 538, Fax.: (49) 761 5159 565 - email: bessem@iaf.fhg.de

fYear

2000

fDate

Oct. 2000

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

For use with a commercial GaAs foundry process, an exhaustive coplanar library for passive and active elements has been developed. The library includes all coplanar elements needed for MMIC design, such as transmission lines, air-bridges, bends, probing pads, T-junctions, coupled lines and lumped passive elements. For all of them, accurate and scalable frequency dependent models have been validated from on-wafer measurement up to 120 GHz, and implemented in the HP-MDS software. This resulted in a comprehensive and precise coplanar database for the commercial United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) low-noise and power PHEMT foundry processes.

Keywords

Coplanar transmission lines; Coupling circuits; Distributed parameter circuits; Foundries; Frequency dependence; Gallium arsenide; MMICs; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Power transmission lines; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European

Conference_Location

Paris, France

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMA.2000.338819

Filename

4139832