Georgia Tech Analog Consortium

Fabrication and Testing program

GTAC faculty members have been active with circuit designs fabricated in CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe, and GaAs. GaAs circuits have also been fabricated at Georgia Tech, TriQuint Semiconductor, and MOSIS.

Faculty members have developed excellent facilities for designing and laying out integrated circuits, as well as laboratories equipped to test analog circuits in a discrete or IC format from frequencies that range from DC to several GHz. Major thrusts for analog testability center on high-speed, high-bit A/D/A converters, programmable memory arrays, and low noise testing. The combination of the educational program with the fabrication and testing program provides our students with a full cycle experience from concept to product realization.

Most recently, faculty members have developed design and characterization facilities with applications for cellular, personal communication, and higher commercial frequency bands. We are concerned with a full range of RF and microwave frequency applications from the hundreds of MHz into the GHz range. Full on-wafer S-parameter and noise parameter capability exists from the MHz to GHz range. Monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) are designed for high bandwidth transmit/receive functions, low-noise operation, and signal conditioning operations.

Following is a sample of GTAC faculty research areas. Please contact any one of the faculty if you have any questions about the Consortium or their work.