Advanced Design Techniques and EDA Methodologies for Analog, RF and MM-Wave Circuit Design

Dear Colleagues,

The design of analog/RF/mm-Wave circuits in nanometric technologies for IoT/5G/eHealth applications is becoming extraordinarily difficult due to the high complexity of such circuits/systems and the demanding performances of their applications. Therefore, traditional design methodologies based on iterative, primarily manual processes struggle to meet such requirements. Current EDA tools for analog/RF/mm-Wave still lack end-to-end automation and are becoming outdated because they primarily support such traditional iterative methodologies. Moreover, the short time-to-market demand in IoT/5G/eHealth/ADAS applications brings forward a design gap, highlighting the lack of productivity in deploying such applications. Therefore, circuit designers and EDA tool developers must work together to develop advanced design techniques and methodologies that increase designer efficiency in deploying such applications. This Topical Collection focuses on advanced design techniques and EDA methodologies for device/circuit/system-level modeling, sizing, and layout in deep nanometer technology nodes that aid the designer in creating circuits with higher performance in less time. Today’s design challenges for battery-powered ultralow power and highly efficient circuits include the increasing requirements that can only be effectively addressed using new and creative topologies, and reports of new circuit designs that operate under creative paradigms will be covered in this SI. Advanced nodes bring additional design rules and topological requirements, parasitic structures, or layout-dependent effects from the physical layout description, especially at RF and mm-Wave operation frequencies. Thus, efficient automatic sizing and layout generation techniques to pursue better design flows will also be included. Finally, machine/deep learning will be heavily covered, given that it has recently started to show its capabilities in the whole analog/RF/mm-wave IC design automation research field by providing ways to bypass some of the drawbacks of traditional approaches and, thereby, shows potential for revolutionizing this industry.

Dr. Fábio Passos
Dr. Nuno Lourenço
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Martins
Collection Editors

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