Solid State Circuits Society

September 29 2004

Our speaker was  Dr. Zoltan Cendes (Founder and CTO, Ansoft Corporation), and the topic of his presentation is
” Trends in High-performance Computer Aided Design”

Abstract

GHz frequencies, Gb/s transmission rates and Gsps sampling rates are typical in today’s high-performance electronics design. Time domain metrics such as eye-diagrams, TDR measurements and jitter are now appearing simultaneously on the same spec sheet with frequency domain metrics such as gain, phase noise, and insertion loss. Large transistor counts, high non-linearities and increased full-wave behavior of on-chip and on-board interconnects have become commonplace. This talk will describe the revolution in electronic design tools that is occurring to meet these challenges. It will describe new approaches to circuit simulation that integrate transient simulation with harmonic balance to handle the complexities of modern monolithic RF circuits. It will describe procedures that combine electromagnetic field simulation with electrical circuit simulation for modeling antenna feed networks, on-chip interconnects, IC packages, and other passive structures. And it will describe the seamless integration of 3D electromagnetics with circuit simulation currently used at IC foundries to model complex RFICs. Ansoft’s recent work on Ultra-Wideband radio design, the Xilinx 10 Gb/s Backplane Design Kit, antenna feed and monopulse network EM/circuit co-design, and on-chip spiral inductors based on UMC foundry technology will be presented as application examples.

Biography:

Dr. Zoltan Cendes is Founder and Chairman of Ansoft Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA. He has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and an Engineer with the Corporate Research and Development Center of the General Electric Company in Schenectady, NY. Dr. Cendes received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University and his BSE degree from the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer.

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