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- Title
ADAPTATION OF A GMIC PROCESS TO MICROWAVE OFFICE USING A PROCESS DEVELOPMENT KIT FROM APPLIED WAVE RESEARCH.
- Authors
Eliasson, Rikard; Sundberg, Anders; Wall, Anders
- Abstract
The glass microwave integrated circuit (GMIC) process, provided by M/A-COM, Tyco Electronics UK Ltd., has been adapted to Microwave Office (MWO) with the Process Development Kit (PDK) from Applied Wave Research (AWR). GMIC elements have been written in C++ and dynamically linked together with suitable simulation models in MWO. Elements such as spiral inductors, thin-film capacitors, Lange couplers and thin-film resistors have been included in the component library. Custom models have been created with the Model Wizard tool from AWR. Model Wizard is used to generate C++ code of models that can be compiled as a .dll file. The adapted component library to MWO has been used in the design of a balanced X-band low noise amplifier. The amplifier is described briefly in this article. If a custom process is adapted to MWO, the development time when designing microwave circuits in the specific process will be reduced. Another important advantage with the PDK is that design errors will almost be eliminated.
- Subjects
RADIO adaptations; MICROWAVE amplifiers; INTEGRATED circuits; MICROWAVE circuits; ELECTRONIC circuits; SIMULATION methods &; models; ELECTRIC equipment
- Publication
Microwave Journal, 2007, Vol 50, Issue 3, p130
- ISSN
0192-6225
- Publication type
Article