RF Mos Measurements

Abstract

The trend to higher integration and higher transmission speed challenges modeling engineers to develop accurate device models up to the Gigahertz range. An absolute prerequisite for achieving this goal are reliable measurements, which have to be checked for data consistency and plausibility. This is especially true for RF data, and also for checking and verifying the applied de-embedding techniques. If this is not the case, RF modeling can become quite time consuming, with a lot of guesswork and ad-hoc judgements, and, basically, frustrating and not correct. If, however, the underlying measurements are flawless and consistent, and provided the applied the models are understood well, RF modeling becomes very effective and provides accurate design kits which will satisfy the chip designer's main goal: right the fist time.