Hi, attached are materials I copyed from a professor's lecture.
Normally RF IC is just simple analog circuit. The difficulty in RF IC design is the parasitic effect in IC.
Hi, I am also a freshman in IC Design.
Normally there are simulations in circuit design(prelayout simulation)and layout design(post-layout simulation, here are the parasitic extraction).
The most popular tools are Cadence spectreRF, Mentor Graphics EldoRF, or ADS.
You can refer to the openbook provided with Cadence, because there are many examples in circuit design and simulation.