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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"BiCMOS"”.
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SiGe BiCMOS integrated circuits for optical communication transmitters
… use of advanced manufacturing processes in SiGe BiCMOS technology. In the first part, the capability of a silicon photonics platform for the implementation of driver and Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) is investigated. With the aim to implement a high-speed solution using this platform, a segmented …
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A BiCMOS RF mixer for 5-GHz receivers
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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A switched-capacitor pipelined BiCMOS analog-to-digital converter
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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A 77GHz power amplifier in silicon germanium BiCMOS technology
The allocation of millimeter-wave frequencies has opened new possibilities for imaging applications such as vehicular radar and concealed weapons detection. Recent advances in silicon processes offer a new means of implementing cost-effective millimeter-wave integrated circuits, a field previously …
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Analytical modeling and simulation of bicmos for VLSI circuits
Interest in BiCMOS technology has been generated recently due to the potential advantages this technology offers over conventional CMOS which enjoys widespread use in today’s semiconductor industry. However, before BiCMOS can be readily adopted by the VLSI community, an understanding of the design …
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A VHF/UHF Voltage Controlled Oscillator in 0.5um BiCMOS
… with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) has helped facilitate this move toward more complex circuit topologies onto one die. BiCMOS achieves efficient chip area utilization by combining bipolar transistors, suited for higher frequency analog circuits with CMOS transistors that are …
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BiCMOS technology and some applications in high performance arithmetic structures.
This work provides a treatment of BiCMOS technology from several perspectives. The manner in which the modern BiCMOS process evolved from a predominantly CMOS processing base is discussed, and a survey of special processing technologies is given. Without these advanced techniques the current level …
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Design of Integrated, Low Power, Radio Receivers in BiCMOS Technologies
Despite increasing levels of integration in modern electronic products, radio receiver designs continue to rely on discrete LC, ceramic, and electro-acoustic devices for the realization of RF and IF bandpass filtering. Although considerable research has been directed at developing suitable …
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SiGe BiCMOS RF ICs and Components for High Speed Wireless Data Networks
The advent of high-fT silicon CMOS/BiCMOS technologies has led to a dramatic upsurge in the research and development of radio and microwave frequency integrated circuits (ICs) in silicon. The integration of silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors (SiGe HBTs) into established "digital" …
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Performance Comparison of Harmonically Tuned Power Amplifiers at 28 GHz in SiGe BiCMOS
As the demand for wireless electronics is increasing, more and more gadgets are connected wirelessly and devices are being improved constantly. The need of the new research and development for advance electronics with high performances is the priority. The data transfer rates are improved for …
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1-Gs/s, 12-Bit High-Performance Silicon-Germanium BiCMOS Digital-to-Analog Converter
In this work, we also propose an efficient calibration approach, suitable for a GHz-range operation. One of the most important considerations in current-steering D/A converter design is the current mismatch issue in the current-cell array. In this case, one should compensate the current mismatch …
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Modeling 0.18[m̳u̳]m BiCMOS (S18) high sheet resistance (RPH) polysilicon resistor lifetime drift
… detecting and measuring lifetime drift in 0.18m BiCMOS high sheet resistance (RPH) polysilicon resistors. The circuit model was made using Cadence-Spectre and Verilog-A. The lifetime drift utility was written using Ocean scripting language.
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Linearized 4-7 GHz LC Tunable Filter with Active Balun in 0.18um SiGe BiCMOS
… with active baluns implemented in 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. Fourth order filtering is achieved by subtracting two 2nd order LC-tanks. This approach allows 3-dB bandwidth to be tunable from 10% to 20%. In each design, a linearized input active balun is employed to drive the LC-tanks from a …
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Predictive modeling of device and circuit reliability in highly scaled CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS technology
… reliability in radiation-rich environments. SiGe BiCMOS technology in particular is positioned as an excellent candidate to satisfy all of these requirements. The objective of this research is to develop predictive modeling tools that can be used to design new mixed-signal technologies and assess …
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Modeling and analysis of thick suspended deep x-ray liga inductors on CMOS/BiCMOS substrate
… substrates used model the TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS/BiCMOS substrates. The RF performance between the suspended structure and the unsuspended counterpart are compared and the advantage of the suspended structures is explored. The potential of LIGA for fabricating high suspended inductors with good …
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Silicon Germanium BiCMOS Comparator Designed for Use in An Extreme Environment Analog to Digital Converter
<p>This thesis demonstrates the process of creating a radiation hardened and extreme temperature operating comparator from start to finish in the 90 nm SiGe 9HP process node. This includes the entire design flow from examining comparator topologies, to designing the initial comparator circuits, to …
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