Descripción del proyecto
Nueva herramienta de automatización de diseño electrónico para circuitos de radiofrecuencia fiables
La naturaleza compleja y exigente de las aplicaciones del internet de las cosas (IdC), la tecnología 5G y la sanidad electrónica aumenta la necesidad de circuitos de radiofrecuencia de alto rendimiento, baja potencia y tensión, y pequeña superficie. Con todo, los métodos del diseño convencionales dependen de procesos iterativos, en su mayoría manuales, y no permiten lograr tales requisitos. Las herramientas de automatización de diseño electrónico actuales, diseñadas para abordar estas metodologías tradicionales, se están quedando obsoletas. El objetivo del proyecto SYSTEMIC-RF, financiado con fondos europeos, es desarrollar una metodología de diseño novedosa que posibilite esquemas de síntesis de circuitos de radiofrecuencia basados en la optimización. En comparación con los métodos convencionales, esto reducirá el tiempo de creación de diseños totalmente óptimos. La nueva herramienta de diseño ayudará a los diseñadores a cumplir con las exigentes especificaciones de las aplicaciones del IdC, la tecnología 5G y la sanidad electrónica en un tiempo razonable.
Objetivo
Due to the constant need for connectivity, radio-frequency (RF) circuits will be of upmost importance in applications developed for the Internet of Things (IoT), the fifth-generation (5G) broadband technology and electronic health (eHealth) monitoring. However, the design of RF circuits in nanometric technologies for IoT/5G/eHealth applications is becoming extraordinarily difficult due to the high complexity and demanding performances of such circuits/systems. The need for high performance, low power, low voltage and low area circuits is immense and traditional design methodologies based on iterative, mostly manual, processes are unable to meet such challenges. Consequently, current EDA tools are getting out-of-date because they were developed to support that kind of traditional methodologies. Also, the short time-to-market demanded by nowadays IoT/5G/eHealth applications is creating a design gap, thus leading to a productivity decrease in the deployment of such IoT/5G/eHealth applications. In this framework, the focus of the SYSTEMIC-RF (Automated synthesis methodology for reliable RF integrated circuits) project is to develop a new design methodology that allows optimization-based synthesis approaches of RF circuits, where the circuit sizing and layout are treated in a complete and automated integrated fashion, in order to achieve fully optimal designs in much shorter times than traditional approaches. Moreover, the methodology will also take into account circuits' and systems' time-zero and time-dependent variability, and will be integrated in a state-of-the-art EDA tool in order to ease its usability. This EDA tool will definitely help RF designers to meet the very demanding specifications of IoT/5G/eHealth applications in a reasonable time.
Ámbito científico
- medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care serviceseHealth
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
3810 193 Gloria E Vera Cruz
Portugal