Mixed-mode and mixed-domain modelling and verification of radio frequency subsystems for SoC-applications

Author

Joeres, Stefan ; Heinen, Stefan

Author_Institution

Chair of Integrated Analog Circuits, RWTH Aachen, Germany

fYear

2005

fDate

22-23 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

59

Abstract

The functional verification of radio frequency circuits is the main target of this work. The use of baseband behavioral description models for Bluetooth™ and WLAN receivers is demonstrated. Fundamental simulation comparisons for different implementation levels are made. This paper concludes with a suggestion for an extension of the Verilog-HDL-family to aid SoC designers in their desire to shorten the time to market.

Keywords

Bluetooth; circuit simulation; formal verification; hardware description languages; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; radio receivers; radiofrequency integrated circuits; system-on-chip; transceivers; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; SoC-applications; Verilog-HDL-family; WLAN receivers; baseband behavioral description model; functional verification; mixed-domain modelling; mixed-mode modelling; radio frequency subsystem; simulation; Analog circuits; Analytical models; Baseband; Bit error rate; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Radio frequency; Time to market; Transceivers; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Workshop, 2005. BMAS 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9352-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMAS.2005.1518187

Filename

1518187