Stage Ingénieur : RF IC Design f/m

Company Description

NXP Semiconductors enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, we are driving innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets.

Business Unit Description

NXP’s Smart Front-End & Interfaces product line is developing millimeter wave technology products. Specifically, this new effort is directed towards bridging high-speed wired interfaces with millimeter wave wireless technologies, which will offer ground-breaking and innovative solutions to the consumer, computing, and industrial markets. Significant technical challenges must be overcome to make these products a reality and this journey will provide a truly rewarding experience.

Your Responsibility

The goal of this internship is to improve the Power Amplifier (PA) Gain (performances) variation versus the process variation (+mismatch) for millimeter (MMW) project, in advance CMOS technology. The aim to to find correlations with other parameters (DC, ringo oscillator frequency, PCM, detectors …), define trimming principles (strategies) and put in place efficient simulation technics.

The internship main phases are described below:

• Analysis of the PA theory to be familiar with the existing design.
• Analysis of the various correlations that can be used to reduce the PA gain (performances) variation.
• Definition of a trimming strategy
• Development of a dedicated test bench involving all the elements of the process.
• Documentation.

Your profile

Level of studies: Last year of electronics engineering school

Knowledge required

• Good understanding in IC design methodology and CMOS technology.
• Knowledge of Cadence, Virtuoso, EMX, maestro, langage unix (bash, python…)
• Fluent in English language both oral and written.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and in writing.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and strong capability to learn.

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