Circuit and Interconnect Design for RF and High Bit-rate Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Challenge

   Pages 1-24

3. Interconnect Modelling, Analysis and Design

   Pages 25-73

4. Device Metrics

   Pages 75-118

5. Cross-Connect Switch Design

   Pages 119-151

6. Bias Circuits Tolerating Output Voltages Above BVCEO

   Pages 153-174

7. Design of Synchronous High-Speed CML Circuits, a PRBS Generator

   Pages 175-196

8. Analysis and Design of High-Frequency LC-VCOs

   Pages 197-234

9. Back Matter

   Pages 235-246

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Realizing maximum performance from high bit-rate and RF circuits requires close attention to IC technology, circuit-to-circuit interconnections (i.e., the ‘interconnect’) and circuit design. Circuit and Interconnet Design for RF and High Bit-rate Applications covers each of these topics from theory to practice, with sufficient detail to help you produce circuits that are ‘first-time right’. A thorough analysis of the interplay between on-chip circuits and interconnects is presented, including practical examples in high bit-rate and RF applications. Optimum interconnect geometries for the distribution of RF signals are described, together with simple models for standard interconnect geometries that capture characteristic impedance and propagation delay across a broad frequency range. The analyses also covers single-ended and differential geometries, so that the designer can incorporate the effects of interconnections as soon as estimated interconnect lengths are available. Application of interconnect design is illustrated using a 12.5 Gb/s crosspoint switch example taken from a volume production part.

• Avalanche Multiplication
• CMOS
• Circuit Design
• Cross-Connect Switch
• Device Metrics
• Distributed Capacitive Loading
• Interconnect
• LC Oscillator
• PRBS Generator
• Transistor
• Transmission
• Transmission Line
• integrated circuit

• Philips Research, 5656 AE, Netherlands

  Hugo Veenstra

• Electronics Research Lab, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD, Netherlands

  John R. Long

John Long is Professor at the TU Delft and he is an expert in the RF / Ultrawideband field

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