Integrated Circuit Design and Fabrication

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS 1. What software will be required at NIST to use the design kit? Will ADS 2006 be adequate? 2. As the NIST program progresses, NIST will want to add separate electronic control of the amplitude and phase of the fundamental in the 60 GHz-90 GHz frequency range and its second and third harmonics. This can be accomplished by separate amplitude and phase control circuits at the fundamental before multiplication, by separate amplitude and phase control circuits after multiplication, or some combination of the two. Does the vendor have standard designs for electronically controlled phase shifters, attenuators, and/or amplifiers with variable gain? Will it be possible to design electronically controlled phase shifters and attenuators in this technology? 3. Please provide an example of the vendor's standard Intellectual Property agreement.