Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: 301
TOPIC AREA:  ANALOG AND CIRCUIT


   SESSION 57
  New Ideas in Analog/RF Modeling and Simulation
  Chair: Luca Daniel - Massachusetts Institute of Tech., Cambridge, MA
  Organizers: Koen Lampaert, Rob A. Rutenbar

  Accurate macromodeling and fast simulation remain two of the highest priorities for all working analog designers. This session presents new ideas in both modeling and simulation, targeting a range of difficult and important circuits. The first paper presents a novel decomposition strategy for building nonlinear cell-level analog macromodels. The second paper develops a new technique for efficient extraction of phase macromodels for digitally controlled oscillator circuits.The third paper describes new, robust envelope-following methods for RF circuits. The final paper describes new table-lookup methods for very fast simulation and statistical modeling of sigma-delta designs.

  57.1   A Multilevel Technique for Robust and Efficient Extraction of Phase Macromodels of Digitally Controlled Oscillators
  Speaker(s): Xiaolue Lai - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  Author(s): Xiaolue Lai - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Jaijeet Roychowdhury - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  57.2  Systematic Development of Nonlinear Analog Circuit Macromodels through Successive Operator Composition and Nonlinear Model Decoupling
  Speaker(s): Ying Wei - State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY
  Author(s): Ying Wei - State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY
Alex Doboli - State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY
  57.3  A Robust Envelope Following Method Applicable to Both Non-Autonomous and Oscillatory Circuits
  Speaker(s): Ting Mei - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  Author(s): Ting Mei - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Jaijeet Roychowdhury - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  57.4  Lookup Table Based Simulation and Statistical Modeling of Sigma-Delta ADCs
  Speaker(s): Guo Yu - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
  Author(s): Guo Yu - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Peng Li - Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX