Advanced Modeling Methodology for Expedient RF SoC Verification and Performance Estimation
Fabian Speicher, Jonas Meier, Christoph Beyerstedt, Ralf Wunderlich, Stefan J. Heinen · 2018
While the complexity of modern RF systems on chip grows significantly, the methods for functional verification can not hold pace. Powerful tools, that are available for the verification of purely digital systems are missing for analog/mixed-signal systems. This paper proposes a method to improve the capabilities of a high level programming language to verify an AMS system design covering RF performance issues. This is done in Cadence using System Verilog HDL and a direct programming interface to C++. As an example, a signal representation and signal processing in the spectral domain to handle the issues of nonlinear frequency conversion is presented.