EDN

VHDL harmonic balance extensions model RF circuits

Harmonic Balance simulators offer engineers the ability to visualize the behavior of an RF transceiver circuit in the frequency domain. VHDL-AMS/FD is the extension to the popular hardware description ...
EDN

Harmonic balance simulation speeds RF mixer design

The use of modern harmonic-balance simulators and electromagnetic analysis software has been instrumental in the design of modern mixers. Especially, it has allowed the development of new types of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Radio Frequency Technology Is Found Everywhere In Daily Life

Innovation is everywhere around us. From high-performance computing, communications, autonomous driving, and the Internet of Things (figure 1), each segment has led to a rapid increase in design ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Bringing RFIC Design And Verification Into The Modern Era

For decades, developers of radio frequency (RF) chips and other analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) have used traditional techniques for design and verification. Most RFIC designers ...
Electronic Design

Optimize Wireless Power Transfer Link Efficiency - Part 2

A simplified ADS simulator model of the resonant link allows simulation of the link and display of the various waveforms in the link. The ADS platform offers many types of simulators allowing analysis ...