Baudouin Martineau of STMicroelectronics gives an excellent overview of the 60 GHz millimeter wave market, applications including WPAN, automotive radar and 94 GHz imaging; semiconductor technology requirements and 65nm CMOS technology specifically; modeling, parametric cells, electromagnetic simulation, Momentum modeling of vertical and horizontal coupled transformers, LNA design methodology, using circuit and EM simulation and optimization.
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Entries from December 17th, 2009
60 GHz Low Noise Amplifier Design Methodology in CMOS 65nm by STMicroelectronics
December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Users Group Paper
Tags: 60 GHz·65nm·Amplifier·cascode·CMOS·EM·Harmonic Balance·LNA·mmW·Momentum·MOSFET·radar·SOI·V-Band·WLAN·WPAN
8W X-Band PHEMT PA Design by UMS
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Users Group Paper
Monolithic Microwave High Power Amplifiers on GaAs for Phased Array Radar deliver high efficiency for X-band applications. Huet, Bly and Serru of UMS demonstrates the design of a HPA using PHEMT technology.
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Tags: Amplifier·Class AB·combiner·DRC·GaAs·Gain Compression·Harmonic Balance·Layout·Load Pull·measurements·Momentum·MonteCarlo·optimization·PAE·PDK·PHEMT·Power Amplifier·stability analysis·X-band