Publications
2017
Journals
1. Radio-Frequency Inductor Synthesis Using Evolutionary Computation and Gaussian-Process Surrogate Modeling
F. Passos, E. Roca, R. Castro-López, F.V. Fernández, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 60, pp 495-507, 2017.
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2017.07.036
2. Parametric macromodeling of integrated inductors for RF circuit design
F. Passos, Y. Ye, D. Spina, E. Roca, R. Castro-López, T. Dhaene, F.V. Fernández, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 59(5), pp 1207-1212, 2017.
DOI: 10.1002/mop.30498
3. An inductor modeling and optimization toolbox for RF circuit design
F. Passos, E. Roca, R. Castro-López, F.V. Fernández, Integration, vol. 58, pp 463-472, 2017.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vlsi.2017.01.009
4. An automated design methodology of RF circuits by using Pareto-optimal fronts of EM-simulated inductors
R. González-Echevarría, E. Roca, R. Castro-López, F.V: Fernández, J. Sieiro, J.M. López-Villegas y N. Vidal, IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 36(1), pp 15-26, 2017.
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2016.2564362
5. Insights into the Operation of Hyper-FET based Circuits
M.J. Avedillo, J. Núñez, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 3912-3918, 2017.
6. Reducing the Impact of Reverse Currents in Tunnel FET Rectifiers for Energy Harvesting Applications
J. Núñez, M.J. Avedillo, IEEE Journal of Electron Devices Society, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 530-534, 2017.
International Conferences
1. A size-adaptive time-step algorithm for accurate simulation of aging in analog ICs
P Martín-Lloret, A Toro-Frías, J Martin-Martinez, R Castro-López, E Roca, R Rodriguez, M Nafria, FV Fernandez. Proc. IEEE Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2017.
2. A strategy to efficiently include electromagnetic simulations in optimization-based RF circuit design methodologies
F Passos, E Roca, R Castro-López, FV Fernández, J Sieiro, JM López-Villegas. Proc. IEEE MTT-S Int. Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization for RF, Microwave, and Terahertz Applications (NEMO), 2017.
3. An algorithm for a class of real-life multi-objective optimization problems with a sweeping objective
F Passos, E Roca, R Castro-López, FV Fernández. Proc. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2017.
4. Extending the frequency range of quasi-static electromagnetic solvers
S. Ahyoune, J. Sieiro, T. Carrasco, N. Vidal, J.M López-Villegas, E. Roca, F.V Fernández. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
5. Including a stochastic model of aging in a reliability simulation flow
A Toro-Frías, P Martin-Lloret, R Castro-López, E Roca, FV Fernández, J Martin-Martinez, R Rodriguez, M Nafria. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
6. Systematic design of a voltage controlled oscillator using a layout-aware approach
F Passos, E Roca, R Castro-López, FV Fernández, R Martins, N Lourenço, R Póvoa, A Canelas, N Horta. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
7. TARS: A toolbox for statistical reliability modeling of CMOS devices
J Diaz-Fortuny, J Martin-Martinez, R Rodriguez, M Nafria, R Castro-Lopez, E Roca, FV Fernandez. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
8. New mapping strategies for pre-optimized inductor sets in bottom-up RF IC sizing optimization
N Lourenço, R Martins, R Póvoa, A Canelas, N Horta, F Passos, R Castro-López, E Roca, FV Fernández. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
9. Layout-aware challenges and a solution for the automatic synthesis of radio-frequency IC blocks
R Martins, N Lourenço, R Póvoa, A Canelas, N Horta, F Passos, R Castro-López, E Roca, FV Fernández. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
10. CASE: A reliability simulation tool for analog ICs
P Martín-Lloret, A Toro-Frías, R Castro-López, E Roca, FV Fernández, J Martin-Martinez, R Rodriguez, M Nafria. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
11. A transistor array chip for the statistical characterization of process variability, RTN and BTI/CHC aging
J Diaz-Fortuny, J Martin-Martinez, R Rodriguez, M Nafria, R Castro-Lopez, E Roca, FV Fernandez, E Barajas, X Aragones, D Mateo. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
12. Statistical characterization of unreliability effects in a 65-nm CMOS transistor array
J Diaz-Fortuny, J Martin-Martinez, R Rodriguez, M Nafria, R Castro-Lopez, E Roca, FV Fernandez. Proc. 22nd International Mixed-Signal Testing Workshop (IMSTW), 2017.
13. Statistical characterization of reliability effects in nanometer CMOS using a versatile transistor array IC
J Diaz-Fortuny, J Martin-Martinez, R Rodriguez, M Nafria, R Castro-Lopez, E Roca, FV Fernandez, E Barajas, X Aragones, D Mateo. Proc. Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems Conference (DCIS), 2017.
14. Efficient Computation of Yield and Lifetime for Analog ICs under Process Variabiliy and Aging
A Toro-Frías, P Martin-Lloret, J Martin-Martinez, R Castro-Lopez, R Rodriguez, E Roca, M Nafria, FV Fernandez. Proc. Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems Conference (DCIS), 2017.
15. Design and characterization of a miniaturized implantable UHF RFID tag based on LTCC technology
A Garcia-Miquel, B Medina-Rodríguez, N Vidal, FM Ramos, E Roca, JM Lopez-Villegas. Proc. 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2017.
16. Dependence of MOSFETs threshold voltage variability on channel dimensions
C Couso, J Diaz-Fortuny, J Martin-Martinez, M Porti, R Rodriguez, M Nafria, FV Fernandez, E Roca, R Castro-Lopez, E Barajas, D Mateo, X Aragones. Proc. Joint International EUROSOI Workshop and International Conference on Ultimate Integration on Silicon (EUROSOI-ULIS), 2017.
17. Optimization of a MEMS accelerometer using a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm
M. Pak, F.V. Fernández, G. Dundar. Proc. 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2017.
