Fábio Passos

42 papers A 2B 1C 5Journal 13Unranked 21
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 C conf
A 0.5V Programmable Voltage Reference with Integrated Differential-Pair Trimming achieving 28.1ppm/°C Temperature Coefficient.
ISCAS
Diogo Ralo, Valter Sádio, Fábio Passos, Tiago H. Moita, Marcelino B. Santos
2025 — conf
A 300 mA Fully-Integrated Inverter-Based LDO with Enhanced Supply Insensitivity for Smart Edge AI Applications.
DCIS
M. Clara Simões, Floriberto Lima, Marcelino B. Santos, Fábio Passos
2025 — conf
On the Usage of Genetic Algorithms, Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimisation for RF IC Design Automation.
SMACD
Margarida Lourenço, Bingbing Zhao, Junde Li, Marcelino B. Santos, Pui-In Mak, Rui Paulo Martins, Wei-Han Yu, Fábio Passos
2024 — conf
Low-Power 9.6-11GHz and 10.8-12GHz VCOs Designed for a 2.5/5GHz TRx using High-Q Inductors Synthesized with ML Techniques.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Ricardo M. F. Martins, Nuno Lourenço
2024 — conf
Ponderous: A Performance-driven Analog IC Placement Optimizer Leveraged by a ML Pipeline.
SMACD
Ricardo Martins, António Gusmão, Rafael Vieira, Fábio Passos, Nuno Lourenço, Nuno Horta
2023 — conf
A 23.5-32.5GHz, 17dBm PSAT and 37.5% PAE Power Amplifier Synthesized Using an Automated Design Methodology.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Nuno Lourenço, Luís Mendes, Ricardo Martins, João Caldinhas Vaz, Nuno Horta
2023 J jnl
Behavioral Analysis of Noise and Bandwidth Specifications of Heartbeat Detection Circuits for Ultra Low Power Devices.
IEEE Access
Rafael Vieira, Fábio Passos, Ricardo Martins, Nuno Horta, Nuno Lourenço
2023 — conf
Efficient Hierarchical mm-Wave System Synthesis with Embedded Accurate Transformer and Balun Machine Learning Models.
ASP-DAC
Fábio Passos, Nuno Lourenço, Luís Mendes, Ricardo Martins, João Caldinhas Vaz, Nuno Horta
2022 C conf
A Radiation-Hardened Frequency-Locked Loop On-Chip Oscillator with 33.6ppm/°C Stability for Space Applications.
ISCAS
Fábio Passos, Rafael Vieira, António Canelas, Ricardo Póvoa, Nuno Lourenço, Nuno Horta, Jorge Guilherme
2022 — conf
Architectural Design for Heartbeat Detection Circuits using Verilog-A Behavioral Modeling.
SMACD
Rafael Vieira, Fábio Passos, Ricardo Povoa, Ricardo Martins, Nuno Horta, Jorge Guilherme, Nuno Lourenço
2022 C conf
Automatic Design of High-Gain 26.5-to-29.5-GHz Transformer-Less Low-Noise Amplifier 1.86-to-8.87-mW Variants in 65-nm CMOS.
ISCAS
Luís Mendes, João Caldinhas Vaz, Fábio Passos, Nuno Lourenço, Ricardo Martins
2022 — conf
Machine Learning Approaches for Transformer Modeling.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Nuno C. Lourenço, Ricardo Martins, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Nuno Horta, Francisco V. Fernández
2022 — conf
Radiation-Hardened Bandgap Voltage and Current Reference for Space Applications with 2.38 ppm/°C Temperature Coefficient.
SMACD
Nuno Lourenço, Fábio Passos, Rafael Vieira, Ricardo Martins, Nuno Horta, Jorge Guilherme, Ricardo Póvoa
2021 J jnl
Hierarchical Yield-Aware Synthesis Methodology Covering Device-, Circuit-, and System-Level for Radiofrequency ICs.
IEEE Access
António Canelas, Fábio Passos, Nuno Lourenço, Ricardo Martins, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Nuno Horta, Francisco V. Fernández
2021 J jnl
In-Depth Design Space Exploration of 26.5-to-29.5-GHz 65-nm CMOS Low-Noise Amplifiers for Low-Footprint-and-Power 5G Communications Using One-and- Two -Step Design Optimization.
IEEE Access
Luís Mendes, João Caldinhas Vaz, Fábio Passos, Nuno Lourenço, Ricardo Martins
2020 J jnl
A Multilevel Bottom-Up Optimization Methodology for the Automated Synthesis of RF Systems.
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Javier J. Sieiro, Rafaella Fiorelli, Rafael Castro-López, José María López-Villegas, Francisco V. Fernández
2020 J jnl
Ready-to-Fabricate RF Circuit Synthesis Using a Layout- and Variability-Aware Optimization-Based Methodology.
IEEE Access
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Ricardo Martins, Nuno Lourenço, Saiyd Ahyoune, Javier J. Sieiro, Rafael Castro-López, Nuno Horta, Francisco V. Fernández
2020 C conf
Semi-Supervised Artificial Neural Networks towards Analog IC Placement Recommender.
ISCAS
António Gusmão, Fábio Passos, Ricardo Póvoa, Nuno Horta, Nuno Lourenço, Ricardo Martins
2020 J jnl
Sub-μW Tow-Thomas based biquad filter with improved gain for biomedical applications.
Microelectron. J.
Ricardo Póvoa, Richa Arya, António Canelas, Fábio Passos, Ricardo Martins, Nuno Lourenço, Nuno Horta
2020 J jnl
Synthesis of mm-Wave Wideband Receivers in 28-nm CMOS Technology for Automotive Radar Applications.
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.
Fábio Passos, Miguel Chanca, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2019 J jnl
A two-step surrogate modeling strategy for single-objective and multi-objective optimization of radiofrequency circuits.
Soft Comput.
Fábio Passos, Reinier Gonzalez-Echevarria, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2019 A conf
Generation of Lifetime-Aware Pareto-Optimal Fronts Using a Stochastic Reliability Simulator.
DATE
Antonio Toro-Frías, Pablo Saraza-Canflanca, Fábio Passos, Pablo Martín-Lloret, Rafael Castro-López, Elisenda Roca, Javier Martín-Martínez, Rosana Rodríguez, Montserrat Nafría, Francisco V. Fernández
2019 — conf
Synthesis of mm-Wave circuits using-EM-simulated passive structure libraries.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Nuno Horta, Francisco V. Fernández
2019 J jnl
Two-Step RF IC Block Synthesis With Preoptimized Inductors and Full Layout Generation In-the-Loop.
IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst.
Ricardo Martins, Nuno Lourenço, Fábio Passos, Ricardo Povoa, António Canelas, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Javier J. Sieiro, Francisco V. Fernández, Nuno Horta
2019 — conf
Using Polynomial Regression and Artificial Neural Networks for Reusable Analog IC Sizing.
SMACD
Nuno Lourenço, Engin Afacan, Ricardo Martins, Fábio Passos, António Canelas, Ricardo Póvoa, Nuno Horta, Günhan Dündar
2018 J jnl
A Comparison of Automated RF Circuit Design Methodologies: Online Versus Offline Passive Component Design.
IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. Syst.
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2018 — conf
Design Considerations of an SRAM Array for the Statistical Validation of Time-Dependent Variability Models.
SMACD
Pablo Saraza-Canflanca, D. Malagon, Fábio Passos, A. Toro, Juan Núñez, Javier Diaz-Fortuny, Rafael Castro-López, Elisenda Roca, Javier Martín-Martínez, Rosana Rodríguez, Montserrat Nafría, Francisco V. Fernández
2018 J jnl
Enhanced systematic design of a voltage controlled oscillator using a two-step optimization methodology.
Integr.
Fábio Passos, Ricardo Martins, Nuno Lourenço, Elisenda Roca, Ricardo Povoa, António Canelas, Rafael Castro-López, Nuno Horta, Francisco V. Fernández
2018 — conf
Handling the Effects of Variability and Layout Parasitics in the Automatic Synthesis of LNAs.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Ricardo Martins, Nuno C. Lourenço, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Ricardo Povoa, António Canelas, Nuno Horta, Francisco V. Fernández
2017 B conf
An algorithm for a class of real-life multi-objective optimization problems with a sweeping objective.
CEC
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2017 J jnl
An inductor modeling and optimization toolbox for RF circuit design.
Integr.
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2017 — conf
Layout-aware challenges and a solution for the automatic synthesis of radio-frequency IC blocks.
SMACD
Ricardo Martins, Nuno C. Lourenço, Ricardo Povoa, António Canelas, Nuno Horta, Fábio Passos, Rafael Castro-López, Elisenda Roca, Francisco V. Fernández
2017 — conf
New mapping strategies for pre-optimized inductor sets in bottom-up RF IC sizing optimization.
SMACD
Nuno C. Lourenço, Ricardo Martins, Ricardo Povoa, António Canelas, Nuno Horta, Fábio Passos, Rafael Castro-López, Elisenda Roca, Francisco V. Fernández
2017 J jnl
Radio-frequency inductor synthesis using evolutionary computation and Gaussian-process surrogate modeling.
Appl. Soft Comput.
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2017 — conf
Systematic design of a voltage controlled oscillator using a layout-aware approach.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández, Ricardo Martins, Nuno C. Lourenço, Ricardo Povoa, António Canelas, Nuno C. G. Horta
2016 A conf
Accurate synthesis of integrated RF passive components using surrogate models.
DATE
Fábio Passos, Reinier Gonzalez-Echevarria, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2016 — conf
Frequency-dependent parameterized macromodeling of integrated inductors.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández, Y. Ye, Domenico Spina, Tom Dhaene
2016 — conf
SIDe-O: A toolbox for surrogate inductor design and optimization.
SMACD
Fábio Passos, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2015 C conf
Physical vs. surrogate models of passive RF devices.
ISCAS
Fábio Passos, Mouna Kotti, Reinier Gonzalez-Echevarria, M. Helena Fino, Mourad Fakhfakh, Elisenda Roca, Rafael Castro-López, Francisco V. Fernández
2014 — conf
Single-Objective Optimization Methodology for the Design of RF Integrated Inductors.
DoCEIS
Fábio Passos, Maria Helena Fino, Elisenda Roca
2013 — conf
A wideband lumped-element model for arbitrarily shaped integrated inductors.
ECCTD
Fábio Passos, M. Helena Fino, Elisenda Roca
2013 — conf
Analythical characterization of variable width integrated spiral inductors.
MIXDES
Fábio Passos, M. Helena Fino, Elisenda Roca Moreno