High-Frequency Integrated Circuits
A transistor-level, design-intensive overview of high-speed and high-frequency monolithic
integrated circuits for wireless and broadband systems from 2GHz to 200GHz, this comprehensive
text covers high-speed, RF, mm-wave, and optical fiber circuits using nanoscale CMOS, SiGe
BiCMOS, and III-V technologies. Step-by-step design methodologies, end-of-chapter problems,
and practical simulation and design projects are provided, making this an ideal resource for senior
undergraduate and graduate courses in circuit design. With an emphasis on device circuit topology
interaction and optimization, it gives circuit designers and students alike an in-depth understanding
of device structures and process limitations affecting circuit performance, and is accompanied
online by supporting lecture slides, student lab assignments and project descriptions, and solutions
for instructors.
Describes step-by-step methodologies to design high-speed circuits as well as layout tech-
Contains over 100 end-of-chapter problems and numerous solved examples to aid and test
Includes device and circuit simulation and design labs based on real-life scenarios in
niques to maximize both device and circuit performance.
understanding.
advanced SiGe BiCMOS and nanoscale CMOS technologies.
Sorin Voinigescu is a Professor at the University of Toronto, where his research and teaching
interests focus on nanoscale semiconductor devices and their application in integrated circuits at
frequencies beyond 300GHz. The co-founder of Quake Technologies, Inc., he was a recipient of the
Best Paper Award at the 2001 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2005 IEEE Compound
Semiconductor IC Symposium (CSICS), and of the Beatrice Winner Award at the 2008 IEEE
International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). His students have won Student Paper
Awards at the 2004 VLSI Circuits Symposium, the 2006 RFIC Symposium, and at the 2008 and
2012 International Microwave Symposia.
THE CAMBRIDGE RF AND MICROWAVE
ENGINEERING SERIES
Series Editor: Steve C. Cripps Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University
Peter Aaen, Jaime Pla´ , and John Wood Modeling and Characterization of RF and Microwave
Power FETs
Dominique Schreurs, Ma´ irtı´n O’Droma, Anthony A. Goacher, and Michael Gadringer RF
Amplifier Behavioral Modeling
Fan Yang and Yahya Rahmat-Samii Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna
Engineering
Enrico Rubiola Phase Noise and Frequency Stability in Oscillators
Earl McCune Practical Digital Wireless Signals
Stepan Lucyszyn Advanced RF MEMS
Patrick Roblin Non-linear FR Circuits and the Large Signal Network Analyzer
Matthias Rudolph, Christian Fager, and David E. Root Nonlinear Transistor Model Parameter
Extraction Techniques
John L. B. Walker Handbook of RF and Microwave Solid-State Power Amplifiers
Anh-Vu H. Pham, Morgan J. Chen, and Kunia Aihara LCP for Microwave Packages and
Modules
Sorin Voinigescu High-Frequency Integrated Circuits
FORTHCOMING
David E. Root, Jason Horn, Jan Verspecht, and Mihai Marcu X-Parameters
Richard Carter Theory and Design of Microwave Tubes
Nuno Borges Carvalho and Dominique Schreurs Microwave and Wireless Measurement
Techniques
Richard Collier Transmission Lines
High-Frequency
Integrated Circuits
SORIN VOINIGESCU
University of Toronto
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ENDORSEMENTS
“Destined to become a classic reference in high frequency RFICs, Professor Voinigescu’s
book will certainly become the reference book in the field of high-frequency RFIC design.
It contains a comprehensive coverage of a vast array of integrated circuits and systems,
including fundamental circuit design techniques, system analysis, packaging techniques, and
measurements. It has an exceptional tutorial value, and presents the state of the art in
microwave and millimeter‐wave systems‐on‐chip.”
Gabriel M. Rebeiz, University of California, San Diego
“Sorin Voinigescu has nicely exploited his wide experience in integrated circuits and devices
to generate this book. It covers very broadly the field of high‐frequency integrated circuits,
designed in advanced silicon and III–V technologies. Both experienced designers and
newcomers in the field will appreciate this book. I am very interested by the many detailed
design recipes and tricks – often with a link to the underlying IC technologies – that are
seldom found in related textbooks.”
Piet Wambacq, University of Brussels and IMEC
“With its rational and omni‐comprehensive approach encompassing devices, circuits,
systems, and applications, Sorin Voinigescu’s book is a unique encyclopedic ‘dictionary’ for
an in‐depth understanding of high‐speed and high‐frequency microelectronic design.
Original, dense of details, clear and focused on the modern design challenges, it removes at
the root several design dogmas that have conditioned research and development of high‐
frequency integrated circuits, resulting in the first book of a new class with a profound look at
the road ahead.”
Domenico Zito, University College Cork
“High‐Frequency Integrated Circuits is the ideal companion for circuit designers wishing to
grasp the challenges of circuit design above RF. Professor Voinigescu takes the reader from
system specification down to the transistor, and presents the circuit analysis that underlies
every RF circuit designer’s intuition.”
James Buckwalter, University of California – San Diego
CONTENTS
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 High-frequency circuits in wireless, fiber-optic, and imaging systems
1.2 A brief history of high-frequency integrated circuits
1.3 What does the future hold?
1.4 The high-frequency IC design engineer
References
2 High-frequency and high-data-rate communication systems
2.1 Wireless and fiber-optic communication systems
2.2 Radio transceivers
2.3 Modulation techniques
2.4 Receiver architectures
2.5 Transmitter architectures
2.6 Receiver specification
2.7 Transmitter specification
2.8 Link budget
2.9 Phased arrays
2.10 Examples of other system applications
Summary
Problems
References
3 High-frequency linear noisy network analysis
3.1 Two-port and multi-port network parameters
3.2 Noise
3.3 Two-port and multi-port noise
3.4 Noise in circuits with negative feedback
Summary
Problems
References
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