Solid State Circuits Society

September 21, 2005

Special Joint presentation with Electron Devices Society   Our speaker was  Yuhua Cheng (Siliconlinx, Inc.), and the topic of his presentation was “An Overview of MOSFET Device Behavior and Modeling for Mixed-signal/RF IC Design“

Abstract

This talk will overview the device behavior and modeling challenges in RF CMOS technology, which is an attractive potential process candidate for wireless communication and system-on-chip (SOC) applications. The downscaling trend of CMOS technology will be discussed briefly. Then the MOS device characteristics will be reviewed to understand the device behavior at high frequency. Modeling issues will be explored with a focus on MOSFET devices with the discussion on device figures of merits and model validations to generate high quality models for mixed-signal/RF applications.

Biography

Yuhua Cheng received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering, Shandong Polytechnic University (now Shandong University), Jinan, China in 1982, the M. S. degree in electrical engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1989.

In 1990, he joined in the Institute of Microelectronics as a research fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Technology (DCST), Peking University, China. From 1992 to 1996, he was an associate professor in DCST. From 1994 to 1995, he was a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, and a Research Fellow of the Norwegian National Research Council. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Senior Scientist at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. In 1997, he worked first for Cadence Design Systems as a Member of Consultant Staff and then joined Rockwell International. From 1997-2004, he worked for Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Conexant Systems (a spin-off from Rockwell), and Skyworks Solutions (a spin-off from Conexant), where he was principal engineer, manager, and senior manager of mixed-signal/RF device (bipolar, MOS and passive) and technology team responsible for Mixed-signal/RF device technology development, modeling and technology support for various (ASIC, analog, Mixed-signal, RF) circuit designs. He is currently with Siliconlinx, Inc., which offers products and services to bridge the gap between IC designers and manufacturing foundries.

He has served many technical program committees and chairs in international conferences, including the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) since 2001 and Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium since 2002. He organized and participated in several workshops and panels related to RFCMOS technology and SOC design. He has authored and co-authored over 80 research papers, several book chapters, two books “MOSFET Modeling & BSIM3 User’s Guide” by Kluwer Academic Publishers, and “Device modeling for analog/RF circuit design” by John Wiley and Sons.

He is a senior member of IEEE and an EDS Distinguished Lecturer. He serves the Administration Committee of IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS). He is a member of the Membership Committee and a member of the Regions/Chapter Committee of IEEE EDS and the vice-chair of the North America West subcommittee for Regions/Chapters (SRC-NAW) of the EDS Regions/Chapters Committee.

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