
The announcement was made at GF’s annual Global Technology Conference (GTC). To advance the adoption of the 22FDX platform and help customers speed time to market, the PDK ensures that the qualified Cadence digital, custom and RF design tools seamlessly interoperate with the GF 22FDX platform, simplifying next-generation 5G mmWave, edge artificial intelligence (AI), IoT and automotive application design. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced a collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) that resulted in the availability of a Mixed-Signal OpenAccess process design kit (PDK) that supports GF’s 22FDX platform. The physical models contain artificial transmission lines with nonlinear circuit elements corresponding to mechanical and electrical nonlinearities.Cadence Design Systems, Inc. The behavioral models for frequency domain analysis are based on the measured values of the frequency dependent S parameters, and on the frequency dependent intermodulation products these magnitudes are measured for incident powers in a certain range. The behavioral models for the time domain analysis are simple circuits containing weakly nonlinear elements. An algorithm for the time step choice in transient analysis based on energy balance errors is also presented.Ĭhapter 3 contains some nonlinear circuit models of power BAW resonators. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are highlighted. In Chapter 2 are presented the main time domain and frequency domain analysis methods for the RF circuits. Because some of the methods described in Chapter 2 (shooting, finite differences, harmonic balance, envelope following) can be applied only for circuits with unique solution, in Section 1.3 are presented some theorems of solutions existence and uniqueness for dynamic circuits. Since many analysis methods are based on the essential properties of non-autonomous circuits with customary behavior (exponential attenuation of transient components, unique periodic steady state solution having the same period with the excitation signal, and spectrum preservation), the Section 1.2 presents the properties of these circuits, which are used almost exclusively in technique. The topics addressed in this book are from the scientific areas of interest of the authors, containing their research results together with other approaches from the literature.Ĭhapter 1 contains a description of the properties of RF circuits, characterization of circuits with customary and uncustomary behavior, and some theorems of solutions existence and uniqueness for dynamic nonlinear circuits. On the other hand, the analysis methods designed for the RF circuits, although faster than the classical transient analysis, can lead to erroneous solutions if they are not carefully set (see Sections 2.1.2 and 2.1.3). But, this analysis is not suitable for the RF circuits, which are driven by high frequency signals, because, in this case, it uses a lot of CPU time and memory resources. For example, for circuits driven by relatively low frequency signals, the classical transient analysis is suitable. Otherwise either the problem is not well formulated, or the circuit model is not correct, or the analysis method used is not suitable for that circuit. If the theoretical results obtained from the electric circuit analysis correspond to the practical results obtained from measurements made on the physical circuit, it means that the adopted model is correct.

Knowing the interconnection and the constitutive equations of the circuit elements, a system of equations whose solution represents the theoretical results can be written. Each circuit element is an approximation of the real device, so there can be many models for the same device, depending on the effects to be modeled and the analysis to be made. For design purpose, a physical circuit made up of devices is associated to a model (the electrical circuit) by replacing the devices with circuit elements, or circuit models.
