• 文献标题:   SimscapeA (R) based ultra-fast design exploration: graphene-nanoelectronic circuit case studies
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JOSHI S, MOHANTY SP, KOUGIANOS E
  • 作者关键词:   nanoelectronic system, design simulation, spiceless simulation, simscape r modeling, graphene field effect transistor, allgraphene lownoise amplifier, lctank vco
  • 出版物名称:   ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS SIGNAL PROCESSING
  • ISSN:   0925-1030 EI 1573-1979
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ N Texas
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1007/s10470-016-0732-2
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

SPICE has been the corner stone of integrated circuit simulation since the 1970s. The device-level options that are available for SPICE/analog simulators to simulate a circuit netlist are typically compact models and/or Verilog-A structural and behavioral models. Though these simulations are very accurate, for large and complex circuits/systems they are extremely slow and even computationally infeasible. Thus, as a paradigm shift of the conventional design simulation flow, this paper presents a complete Simscape (R) based design and simulation flow for ultra-fast design exploration of graphene based nanoelectronic systems. A behavioral model for a dual gate graphene field effect transistor (GFET) is modeled in Simscape (R) based on the drift-diffusion conduction mechanism. The kink region of the I-V characteristic is modeled via a displacement current. For case study design circuits, an all graphene based low noise amplifier and an LC-tank voltage controlled oscillator are presented. The results show that the proposed design alternative to simulate analog circuits and systems is a viable option in addition to the existing SPICE, VHDL-AMS or Verilog-A based flows and can open the way to true device-level system design exploration and optimization. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first ever paper to explore a Simscape (R) model of a GFET device and design a GFET based radio-frequency circuit using Simscape (R).