Analysis and optimization of substrate noise coupling in single-chip RF transceiver design

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 309-316

  Koukab, Adil ^a   Banerjee, Kaustav ^b   Declercq, Michel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOISE COUPLING EFFECTS; RADIOFREQUENCY TRANSCEIVER; SINGLE CHIP INTEGRATION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUBSTRATES; TRANSCEIVERS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0036916124     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/774572.774619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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