Design Services
We do AMS & RF & mm-Wave IC Design
We offer design services for AMS & RF & mm-Wave ICs, including related layout services.
Example of the Novelic 57–64-GHz FMCW transmitter with fully integrated frequency synthesizer developed in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS technology for FMCW & Doppler radar sensors
Workflow AMS & RF & mm-Wave IC Design
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| System Design | MATLAB and Simulink, Keysight’s ADS Ptolemy, Verilog-AMS |
| AMS IC design | Cadence’s Design Flow Tools |
| RF & MM-Wave IC design | Keysight’s ADS, Cadence’s Spectre RF, Keysight’s Momentum, ANSYS’s HFSS, Sonnet Suites |
| IC Verification | Mentor’s Calibre, Cadence’s Assura Physical Verification, Cadence’s PVS |
| Programming | C/C++, Perl, Python, Cadence’s SKILL, Cadence’s Ocean |
Technologies
- CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe
- TSMC, TowerJazz, IHP, XFAB, UMC, STM, AMS, TI, GF…
- 28 nm – 0.35 μm
Project Examples AMS & RF & mm-Wave IC Design
RF & mm-wave IC
- 77–81-GHz automotive radar sensor, with on-chip FMCW synthesizer based on fractional-N PLL
- FMCW transmitter covering 57–64-GHz ISM band with output power of +8 dBm and up-to fully programmable chirp configurations
- 60–GHz industrial radar sensor and nFSK transmitter with on-chip PLL and 7–GHz bandwidth
- UWB ultra-low power transmitter (IEEE 802.15.4a)
- UWB sensor design, 3–4 & 7–8 GHz
- Watch based COSPAS/SARSAT beacon IC
- UWB 3.1–10.6-GHz transceiver for professional application
- 2.4–GHz SiGe high performance direct I/Q demodulator and modulator
- Automotive radio RF IC design
AMS IC
- Ultra-high sensitive 3D Hall sensor SoC (AMS ICs) for industrial applications
- Heat sensor IC
- Flow meter IC
- ADC: 2nd & 3rd order SC Sigma-Delta; CT Sigma-Delta; ultra-high-speed GHz sampling in 28-nm CMOS
- Integer-N and fractional-N PLLs: from 10 MHz to 81 GHz (with bandwith up to 11GHz)
- Support blocks: bias, bandgaps, amps, buffers, LDOs …
