TUMA5: Co-design of Acoustic Filter and Silicon IC for Improved System Level Performance
IMS2026
In Cadence's Virtuoso Studio RF (VSRF) platform it is now possible to fully co-design acoustic filters and Silicon ICs through our Virtuoso Design Link and Virtuoso PDK capabilities. This microap...
TUMA4: Machine Learning Driven, Electromagnetically Aware, RFIC Layout and Design Co-Optimization
IMS2026
The evolution of new technologies and applications are driving increasing chip complexity with reduced design cycles. The layout of dense circuitry central and graphically processing units requires c...
TUMA3: New Load Pull Analysis for RFIC Design
IMS2026
Learn how the new load pull analysis in Cadence Virtuoso ADE Artist provides improved capabilities for RF designers:
1) New tuner that supports souce and load pull analyses at the fundamental, second,...
TUMA23: How To Reduce Thermal Drift in Transmit/Receive Modules (TRM).
IMS2026
Temperature effects can wreak havoc on transmit/receive module (TRM) performance. This MicroApp will describe two mitigation approaches: active and passive. For the passive approach, selection criteri...
TUMA22: Full thermal Single Sweep Broadband S-Parameter measurements to 250 GHz with single ended and differential approaches
IMS2026
As device performance continues to improve, customers require over-temperature data to ever higher frequencies, without the time consumption and uncertainty of band swapping. In addition, the populari...
TUMA21: Demystifying 'N': Improving Temperature Variable Attenuator Selection by Modeling Temperature Behavior
IMS2026
Temperature Variable Attenuators (TVAs) are essential for RF gain stabilization, yet their behavior is often mischaracterized by the simplistic “N-value” designation. In practice, ...
TUMA20: Advances In Thermal Analysis to Address the Growing Thermal Challenges of 3D Heterogeneous Integration
IMS2026
An overview of structural, mechanical, and thermal characterization techniques to address the thermal challenges of advanced integrated circuits and 3D heterogeneous packaging including the characteri...
TUMA2: Shift Left your Signal Integrity -- Automated SI-Driven PCB Optimization with GenAI
IMS2026
Modern high-speed designs face a common bottleneck: the combinatorial explosion of via transitions and other structures in a variety of complex stackups. With limited engineering resources and schedul...
TUMA19: Optimization of Heat Pipe Configuration in an Air-Cooled Aluminum Heat Sink for a Radio Frequency Amplifier
IMS2026
The performance of an RF amplifier air-cooled heat sink is compared for three heat pipe configurations. The heat sink dissipates a total of 1900W split between two drivers (150W, 35.9 W/cm2 each) and ...
TUMA18: Impact of reference clock slew rate on RF synthesizer phase noise and improvement techniques
IMS2026
Phase Locked Loops(PLLs), also known as RF synthesizers are used for generating high frequency outputs phase locked to low frequency references across various bands for example L to Ka band. Output ph...