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74 lines
2.6 KiB
Markdown
# RFICS Presentation Structure
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## Organizational stuff
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- Duration: 10 minutes slides + 15 minutes questions
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- Bring own laptop or send slides
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## Content
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- Background and Introduction
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- Standard way of doing things ("Old technique")
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- Explanation of issue the ideas in the paper are aimed at
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- Proposed Ideas
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- Discussion of semiconductor technology; Comparison with IHP technology (if
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sufficient details are provided)
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- Circuit schematics
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- Explanation of which topology is used and why
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- Is there anything unconventional about the design?
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- Explanation of measurement results in paper
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- Simulation Results
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- Explanation of design steps (e.g., approach proposed in lecture: worry
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about bias in the end)
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- How transistors were chosen
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- Choice of operating point
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- Rest of schematic details
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- Simulation of circuit in paper (with explanation - I guess intuitive
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explanation of why things look the way they do?)
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- If the design in the paper is different to the standard approach:
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Comparison of pros and cons with standard topology, with simulations
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- Discussion
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- Own observations and opinions about the ideas in the paper
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- (Bonus) Further simulations with ideas from the lecture
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- Conclusion
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## Things not to include
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- Layout issues and optimization are out of scope, in case they exist in the
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paper
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## TODO
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- Compare technologies (B11HFC, SG13G2)
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- What are the benefits of SiGe? (e.g., RF on same chip as digital stuff)
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- How does the proposed topology work?
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- Why the TIA?
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- How does the TIA work?
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- Why do transmission-line based differential L-type matching networks have a
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high bandwidth?
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- How can we just remove the bottom transistors?
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- Intuitive explanations of paper simulation results
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- Why do single-ended chip interfaces enable a dense chip-to-package
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transition?
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- Stuff from background slide:
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- Relevant theoretical background on mixers
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- What is special about zero-IF mixers?
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- ~What is special about broadband mixers/devices?~ Take a look ad broadband
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IC notes
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- What is special about down-conversion mixers?
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- What is special about BiCMOS technology?
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- ~What is D-Band?~
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- Simulation
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## Ideas for further simulations
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- Change the buffer resistors to inductors (drawback: larger size)
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- Remove feedback path from TIA (and ensure stability by other means)
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## Other notes
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- LSSP: Normal S-Parameters are determined for linearized systems. For this
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reason, they are only tools of small-signal analysis. Large-Signal
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S-Parameters are defined similarly (ratios of power going in/out) but are
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computed considering non-linearities.
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