Gallium Arsenide technology has come of age. GaAs integrated circuits are available today as gate arrays with an operating speed in excess of one Gigabits per second. Special purpose GaAs circuits are used in optical fiber digital communications systems for the purpose of regeneration, multiplexing and switching of the optical signals. As advances in fabrication and packaging techniques are made, the operat ing speed will further increase and the cost of production will reach a point where large scale application of GaAs circuits will be economical in these and other systems where speed is paramount. This book is written for students and engineers who wish to enter into this new field of electronics for the first time and who wish to embark on a serious study of the subject of GaAs circuit design. No prior knowledge of GaAs technology is assumed though some previous experience with MOS circuit design will be helpful. A good part of the book is devoted to circuit analysis, to the extent that is possible for non linear circuits. The circuit model of the GaAs transistor is derived from first principles and analytic formulas useful in predicting the approxi mate circuit performance are also derived. Computer simulation is used throughout the book to show the expected performance and to study the effects of parameter variations.

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Martin Marietta constructed SIMCPU, a component level modeling environment for the GaAs OBP design. The modeling environment is composed of Behavioral Language Models (BLM's) for each component, Mentor Graphics Quicksim tool, and software to couple them together. The resulting environment had two purposes: (1) To allow accurate, component-level timing simulations of the complete GaAs CPU to be run in a reasonable amount of time; and (2) To provide the basis for which the detailed transistor level chip design and simulation tasks were compared against the register transfer level simulator, CPUSIM. To accomplish these goals, the complete GaAs CPU simulation had to be driven by a microprogram which was running in CPUSIM, It also had to be capable of providing system level timing decisions, such as the performance lost be altering the ratio of CPU to memory speed.

Gallium Arsenide IC Applications Handbook is the first text to offer a comprehensive treatment of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) integrated chip (IC) applications, specifically in microwave systems. The books coverage of GaAs in microwave monolithic ICs demonstrates why GaAs is being hailed as a material of the future for the various advantages it holds over silicon. This volume provides scientists, physicists, electrical engineers, and technology professionals and managers working on microwave technology with practical information on GaAs applications in radar, electronic warfare, communications, consumer electronics, automotive electronics and traffic control. Includes an executive summary in each volume and chapter Facilitates comprehension with its tutorial writing style Covers key technical issues Emphasizes practical aspects of the technology Contains minimal mathematics Provides a complete reference list