The most widely used CAD tool and simulator for RF IC Design in the Industry are Cadence and Spectre respectively. You will be using this tool for your design projects. They are also regularly used by the Analog and Mixed-Signal IC group at IITM. You can find more information about their research work here.
You will be designing your circuits in the IBM 9SF 90nm low-leakage CMOS Process.[Note: noise parameters have been added manually from some other process]
BSIM4 Spectre model parameters: ibm90nm.scs
Scalable inductor pcell for use with Cadence 6.0: RFIC2013.zip
You should instantiate the 'nbsim4' and 'pbsim4' devices from analogLib and point them to 'CMOSN' and 'CMOSP' models respectively. The above spectre model is all that you need to include in your simulation setup.
Projects
General Project Guidelines
1. E-submission only - submit a single pdf file containing your project report. You may append your netlist or schematic captures at the end of your report in the same pdf file.
2. Write a good report - marks will be awarded for this.
3. Grading will be relative to all circuit performance metrics, with the most preferable being that design which meets all specs with least power dissipation.
4. You are allowed to use one ideal 100uA DC current source for bias generation and one ideal 1.2V DC voltage source for power supply VDD. All other DC currents and voltages must be generated from these.
5. Connect all NMOS bulks to ground. Do not connect them locally to the respective sources.
6. Novel circuit topologies may be given bonus marks at the discretion of the Instructor.
