Analysis, Design, and Optimization of RF CMOS Polyphase Filters

Polyphase filters (PPFs) are an efficient solution for high accuracy quadrature generation in radio frequency (RF) CMOS design. Although there are some guidelines for design of RF CMOS PPFs, they give too much freedom. With layout considerations, optimization of RF CMOS PPFs cannot be reached by using analytical calculations because of many constraints and tradeoffs in the design. Thus, in design of RF CMOS PPFs, intensive trials and several design iterations are needed to reach given specifications. In this situation, a computer-aided analysis and design optimization tool for RF CMOS PPFs is of great help to the community of RF CMOS PPFs designers, especially for industrial projects that are under time-to-market pressures. However, such a dedicated tool has not been available until now, to the author’s best knowledge. Focusing on computer-aided analysis and design optimization tools for RF CMOS PPFs, this dissertation has the following scientific contributions: •