Chang / Charbon / Choudhury A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven Design Methodology for Analog Integrated Circuits

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4419-8752-5
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 369 Seiten, eBook

Analog circuit design is often the bottleneck when designing mixed analog-digital systems. A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven DesignMethodology for Analog Integrated Circuits presents a new methodology based on a top-down, constraint-driven design paradigm that provides a solution to this problem. This methodology has two principal advantages: (1) it provides a high probability for the first silicon which meets all specifications, and (2) it shortens the design cycle. A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven Design Methodology for Analog IntegratedCircuits is part of an ongoing research effort at the University of California at Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department. Many faculty and students, past and present, are working on this design methodology and its supporting tools. The principal goals are: (1) developing the design methodology, (2) developing and applying new tools, and (3) `proving' the methodology by undertaking `industrial strength' design examples. The work presented here is neither a beginning nor an end in the development of a complete top-down, constraint-driven design methodology, but rather a step in its development. This work is divided into three parts. Chapter 2 presents the design methodology along with foundation material. Chapters 3-8 describe supporting concepts for the methodology, from behavioral simulation and modeling to circuit module generators. Finally, Chapters 9-11 illustrate the methodology in detail by presenting the entire design cycle through three large-scale examples. These include the design of a current source D/A converter, a Sigma-Delta A/D converter, and a video driver system. Chapter 12 presents conclusions and current research topics. A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven Design Methodology for Analog IntegratedCircuits will be of interest to analog and mixed-signal designers as well as CAD tool developers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chang, Henry

Charbon, Edoardo

Choudhury, Umakanta

Demir, Alper

Felt, Eric

Liu, Edward

Malavasi, Enrico

Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Alberto

Vassiliou, Iasson

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 INTRODUCTION.- 2 DESIGN METHODOLOGY.- 3 SIMULATION AND BEHAVIORAL MODELING.- 4 ARCHITECTURAL MAPPING AND OPTIMIZATION.- 5 CONSTRAINT-DRIVEN LAYOUT SYNTHESIS.- 6 BOTTOM-UP VERIFICATION.- 7 TESTING.- 8 MODULE GENERATION.- 9 CURRENT SOURCE DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER DESIGN EXAMPLE.- 10 ?-? ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER DESIGN EXAMPLE.- 11 VIDEO DRIVER DESIGN EXAMPLE.- 12 CONCLUSIONS.- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.- REFERENCES.