Mendes, LuísPires, E. J. SolteiroVaz, João C.Rosário, Maria J.Oliveira, P. B. de MouraMachado, J. A. TenreiroFerreira, N. M. Fonseca2015-11-252015-11-252008http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/7011The paper presents a RFDSCA automated synthesis procedure. This algorithm determines several RFDSCA circuits from the top-level system specifications all with the same maximum performance. The genetic synthesis tool optimizes a fitness function proportional to the RFDSCA quality factor and uses the epsiv-concept and maximin sorting scheme to achieve a set of solutions well distributed along a non-dominated front. To confirm the results of the algorithm, three RFDSCAs were simulated in SpectreRF and one of them was implemented and tested. The design used a 0.25 mum BiCMOS process. All the results (synthesized, simulated and measured) are very close, which indicate that the genetic synthesis method is a very useful tool to design optimum performance RFDSCAs.engBiCMOS integrated circuitsQ-factorCapacitorsDifferentiating circuitsMinimax techniquesbook part10.1109/APMC.2008.4958303