EDA / CAD for Nanoelectronics
Code
10491
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Maria Helena Silva Fino
Weekly hours
3
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
The course aims to present the new technologies for the development of circuits in the nanometric scale. Students are alerted to the need of developing/using new compact models for both active and passive integrated elements to be used in analog and RF circuit design. Finally, students should learn new design methodologies to be adopted for the particular case of nanoscale electronic design.
Prerequisites
Basic electronic knowledge.
Matlab programming
Expertise in electrical simulation environements
Subject matter
1- Introduction to Nano electronics.
2- Nanometric scale transistor models- NPower and EKV model.
3- EKV 2.6 model parameter evaluation for UMC130 technology.
4- Integrated inductor compact models- Pi-model.
5- Using Verilog-A for model development..
6- Wireless application LC filter characterization with verilogA.
7- Introduction to analog/RF blocks Optimization based design.
Bibliography
- T. Sakurai, A. R. Newton, “ A simple MOSFET Model for Circuit Analysis”, IEEE transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 38, Nº 4, pp. 887-893, April 1991.
- Arthur Nieuwoudt, Yehia Massoud, “Multi-level Approach for Integrated Spiral Inductor Optimization, Design Automation Conference, pp. 648-651, June 2005.
- Pedro Pereira, Helena Fino, Fernando Coito, M.Ventim-Neves, "ADISI- an Efficient Tool for the Automatic Design of Integrated Spiral Inductors", IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Hammamet- Tunisia, 13-16 December 2009.
- Jamil Kawa, Charles Chiang, Raul Camposano, “EDA Challenges in Nano-scale Technology”- IEEE 2006 Custom Intergrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
- Chrsitian C. Enz, Eric A. Vitoz, Charge-based MOS Transistor Modeling- The EKV model for low-power and RF IC Design, John Wiley and sons, 2006.
Teaching method
Weekly tutorial sessions where the main concepts are taught. Students have to develop Matlab “scripts” every week, where the several models are implemented. In the first evaluation a report on the npower model parameter evaluation as well as its application to the characterization of a voltage amplifier is considered. The limitations of this model for analog applications, must be pointed out. For the second evaluation the EKV2.6 models parameters for UMC130 technology are generated. This model is used for an optimisation-based design of an RF block. Results obtained are validated with Cadence simulations.
Evaluation method
implementation of three projects during the semester.
Project 1- 20%
Project 2- 40%
Project 3- 40%