Top-down methodology in industrial mixed-signals design

被引：0

作者：

Liao, E ^{[1
]}

Postula, A ^{[1
]}

Ding, Y ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Queensland, ITEE, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

来源：

MICROELECTRONICS: DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, AND PACKAGING II | 2006年 / 6035卷

关键词：

design automation; design methodology; hardware design languages; integrated circuit layout; mixed analogue -digital integrated circuits; simulation; testing;

D O I：

10.1117/12.637866

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Analogue and mixed-signal designs are fast becoming significant in System-On-Chip (SoC) designs as digital computational cores need to interface with the real world. Cellular phones, magnetic disk drives, speech recognition hardware and other 'digital' innovations in fact rely on a core of analogue circuitry. Mature digital CAD tools competently handle the digital portions of SoC designs. This is not true for analogue and mixed-signals components, still designed manually using time-consuming techniques. A good top-down design methodology can drastically reduce the design time of analogue components in SoCs and allow comprehensive functionality verification. This paper contains a critical survey of current design processes and tools, a top-down design case study and introduces MIX-SYN, a new platform for fast-tracking exploration and design time for the analogue and mixed-signals design industry.

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