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Well island generation and well tap placement is an important problem in analog/mixed-signal (AMS) circuits. Well taps can only prevent latchups within a certain radius of influence within a well island, and hence must be appropriately inserted to cover ...

Well island generation and well tap placement pose an important challenge in automated analog/mixed-signal (AMS) layout. Well taps prevent latchup within a radius of influence in a well island, and must cover all devices. Automated AMS layout flows ...

The present-day revolution in deep learning was triggered not by any significant algorithm breakthrough, but by the use of more powerful GPU hardware [1]. Though this revolution has stimulated the development of even more powerful dedicated digital ...

Operation elasticity due to the proportional relationship between energy and switching activity of asynchronous circuits has made them hugely attractive for energy harvesting systems. Using asynchronous logic makes it possible to minimize the power ...

Test generation method for mixed-signal circuits is the key and the difficulty of the study of mixed-signal circuits. Most research is to the analog part, or takes the analog part and digital part as independent circuits. In this paper, the mixed-signal ...

As the fault modes of mixed-signal circuits growing, aiming at the features for its signal are both analog and digital amount, the paper analyzed that the fault diagnosis program of mixed-signal circuits with genetic algorithms by using SABER simulation ...

This paper presents an approach to generate test vectors to characterize analog/mixed-signal circuits and its application to check the correspondence between a circuit and its HDL functional model. Interestingly, the abstract behavior of most analog ...

A simple, yet physically intuitive macrolevel model is presented to identify the dominant substrate coupling mechanism at the early stages of the design process, while simultaneously considering multiple parameters. Furthermore, the sensitivity of ...

A methodology is proposed to efficiently estimate the substrate noise generated by large scale aggressor circuits. Small spatial voltage differences within the ground distribution network of an aggressor circuit are exploited to reduce the overall ...

Analog circuits are designed in fundamentally different ways than their counterparts in the digital domain. However, two major trends have made analog and digital circuits mix and co-exist. First, high-performance analog circuits use digital parts and ...

In this paper, a chip that performs real-time image convolutions with programmable kernels of arbitrary shape is presented. The chip is a first experimental prototype of reduced size to validate the implemented circuits and system level techniques. The ...

An energy optimization is proposed that addresses the non-trivial digital contribution to power and impact on performance in high-speed mixed-signal circuits. Parallel energy and behavioral models are used to quantify architectural tradeoffs across the ...

The dominant substrate noise coupling mechanism is determined for multiple switching gates based on a physically intuitive model. The model exhibits reasonable accuracy as compared to SPICE. The regions where ground coupling and source/drain coupling ...

We have analyzed two options of using hybrid CMOS/nanodevice circuits with area-distributed (CMOL) interface for the low-level image processing tasks, on the simplest example of 2-D image convolution with a sizable filter window. The first option is to ...

In this paper, a tool generated in MATLAB environment for automatic modeling and architecture synthesis of sigma-delta (SD) modulators is described. The tool is capable of generating the parametric signal and noise transfer functions (STF and NTF) of an ...

Non-linear multiport resistors are the main ingredients in the synthesis of non-linear circuits. Recently, a particular PWL representation has been proposed as a generic design platform (IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.-I 2002; 49:1138–1149). In this paper, ...

This paper presents an investigation of dynamically reconfigurable mixed-signal circuits implementing adaptive controllers and plant simulators. Motorola Field Programmable Analog Array described in this paper are used to build adaptive controllers and ...

This paper presents an investigation of dynamically reconfigurable mixed-signal circuit constructed using a digital control system and the new technology of Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA). A Motorola FPAA described in this paper can be used to ...

This paper presents the design and analysis of a built-in tester circuit for MOS switched-current circuits used in low-voltage/low-power mixed-signal circuits/systems. The use of the tester can reduce the test length significantly. The developed tester ...

The areas of analog circuit fault simulation and test generation have not witnessed the same degree of success as their digital counterparts. This is due mainly to the complexity of analog behavior and the lack of a fault mode. We present a new ...