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Microwave Circuit Design

Microwave Circuit Design
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Author(s): Gabriel Cormier (Université de Moncton, Canada)and Tyler Ross (Carleton University, Canada)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 22
Source title: Swarm Intelligence for Electric and Electronic Engineering
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Girolamo Fornarelli (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)and Luciano Mescia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2666-9.ch002

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Abstract

Circuit models play an important role in the design and optimization of microwave circuits (circuits in the GHz frequency range). These circuit models contain many parameters, including parasitic elements, necessary to correctly model the behavior of transistors at high frequencies. These models are often designed based on a series of measurements. Because of its ability to efficiently locate the global optimum of an objective function, particle swarm optimization (PSO) can be a useful tool when matching a model to its measurements. In this chapter, PSO will be used to calculate a transistor’s small-signal model parameters, determine the noise parameters of the transistor, and design a microwave mixer. The mixer is designed at 39.25 GHz, and a comparison between measurements and simulation results shows good agreement.

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