Bluetooth transceiver design and simulation with VHDL-AMS

This article describes the design challenges of BlueTraC/sup TM/, a low-cost, low-power radio transceiver, and the usage of mixed-signal/mixed-mode techniques and behavioral modeling with ADVance MS (ADMS) from Mentor Graphics to address and solve them. BlueTraC from Spirea is a Bluetooth 1.1-compliant Class 2 radio transceiver. In addition to all the required RF and analog functions, the chip als...