Silicon RF IC Design

National Technical University of Athens
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Microelectronic Circuit Design Group

SILICON RF IC DESIGN RELATED ACTIVITIES

On-chip spiral inductor modeling
RF related funded research projects
RFIC publications

RF related funded research projects

TIBIA, Technology Initiative in BiCMOS for Applications, ESPRIT III, Project no. 8001. RF IC design project cooperation with Siemens Semiconductors, Munich, Germany.
ΕPΕΤ ΙΙ, Development of industrial microelectronic products, Greek Ministry of Research and Technology, Project no. 476. Design and development of a modem system for sub-SDH applications.
TIBIA II, Technology Initiative in BiCMOS for Applications, ESPRIT IV, Project no. 20485. RF IC design project cooperation with Siemens Semiconductors, Munich, Germany.
I-MODE, Low Power RF to Baseband Interface for Multimode Portable Phones, ESPRIT IV, Project no. 25702.
OCMP, One-chip Low Power Transceiver for Multimode Portable Phones, ESPRIT IV, Project no. 24123. Cooperation with ST Microelectronics
TIGRA, Transmitter Intergration of Next Generation TETRA Systems for PMR and Public Safety Applications in a CMOS-based SiGe Technology,
IST Project no. 10178, cooperation with Austria Mikro Systeme and Securicor Wireless Technologies

Recent publications in the RF IC design area

A Generic CAD Model for Arbitrarily Shaped and Multi-Layer Integrated Inductors on Silicon Substrates
Y. Koutsoyannopoulos, Y. Papananos, C. Alemanni, S. Bantas
Proc. ESSCIRC '97, pp. 320-323, Southampton UK, Sep. 1997.
A CAD tool for Simulating the Performance of Polygonal and Multi-Layer Integrated Inductors on Silicon Substrates
Y. Koutsoyannopoulos, Y. Papananos
Proc. IEEE 5th International Conference on VLSI and CAD (ICVC '97), Seoul-Korea, 1997, pp. 244-246.
Efficient Utilization of On-chip Inductors in Silicon RF IC Design Using a Novel CAD Tool; The LNA Paradigm
Y. Papananos, Y. Koutsoyannopoulos,
Proc. 1998 IEEE ISCAS, Monterey, USA, pp. 118-121.
Device Modeling and Applications in Silicon RF IC Design
Y. Papananos, Y. Koutsoyannopoulos, S. Bantas
1998 International Conference on Telecommunications, Proc. ICT '98, pp. 125-129, vol. IV, Jun. 1998, Chalkidiki, Greece.
Design Issues Towards the Integration of Passive Components in Silicon RF VCOs
A. Kyranas and Y. Papananos
IEEE ICECS 98, Lisboa, Portugal, pp. 311-314.
Novel Si Integrated Inductor and Transformer Structures for RF IC Design Y. Koutsoyannopoulos, Y. Papananos, S. Bantas, C. Alemanni
1999 IEEE ISCAS, Orlando, USA.
CMOS Tunable Bandpass Filters Utilizing Coupled on-chip Inductors
S. Bantas and Y. Papananos
1999 IEEE ISCAS, Orlando, USA.
Systematic Analysis and Modeling of Integrated Inductors and Transformers in RF IC Design
Y. Koutsoyannopoulos and Y. Papananos
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 47, no. 8, Aug. 2000, pp. 699-713.
Passive on-chip components for fully integrated silicon RF VCOs A. Kyranas and Y. Papananos
to be published in Journal of Active and Passive Components.
Current Mode Baseband Interface for Communication Applications
S. Bouras, T. Georgantas, Y. Papananos, D. Dervenis
1999 IEEE ICECS, Pafos, Cyprus.
A 5 GHz Fully Integrated VCO in a SiGe Bipolar Technology
A. Kyranas and Y. Papananos
2000 ΙΕΕΕ ISCAS, Geneva, Switzerland.
Performance Limits of Planar and Multilayer Integrated Inductors
Y. Koutsoyannopoulos, Y. Papananos, S. Bantas, C. Alemanni
2000 ΙΕΕΕ ISCAS, Geneva, Switzerland.
Design issues of fully integrated RF VCOs
A. Kyranas and Y. Papananos
MMN2000, Demokritos, Athens.
Power Amplifier Linearization Techniques: An Overview
N. Naskas and Y. Papananos
MMN2000, Demokritos, Athens.

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