Descrizione del progetto
Nuovo strumento di automazione della progettazione elettronica per circuiti a radiofrequenza affidabili
La natura complessa ed esigente delle applicazioni di Internet delle cose (IoT), del 5G e dei servizi sanitari online sta aumentando la necessità di circuiti a radiofrequenza ad alte prestazioni, bassa potenza, bassa tensione e bassa area. Tuttavia, i metodi di progettazione tradizionali si basano su processi iterativi, per lo più manuali, e non possono affrontare tali sfide. Sviluppati per supportare queste metodologie tradizionali, gli attuali strumenti di automazione della progettazione elettronica stanno diventando obsoleti. Il progetto SYSTEMIC-RF, finanziato dall’UE, si propone quindi di sviluppare una nuova metodologia di progettazione che consenta approcci di sintesi basati sull’ottimizzazione dei circuiti a radiofrequenza. Ciò si tradurrà in progetti completamente ottimali creati in tempi molto più brevi rispetto agli approcci tradizionali. Il nuovo strumento di progettazione aiuterà i progettisti a soddisfare tempestivamente le specifiche esigenti delle applicazioni relative a IoT, 5G e servizi sanitari online.
Obiettivo
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 Consequently, current EDA tools are getting out-of-date because they were developed to support that kind of traditional methodologies.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.
Campo scientifico
- 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)Coordinatore
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