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Reuse-Based Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits

  • Thorough analysis of the design gap problem, the current status of analog and mixed-signal design methodologies, and the reasons backing up a paradigm shift

  • Complete coverage of analog and mixed-signal design automation, incorporating the concept of reuse-based design in a flow aiming at bridging of the design gap

  • Tutorial, hierarchical description of the analog and mixed-signal reusable block concept and its must-have properties

  • In-depth explanation of reusability methods, with special and exhaustive emphasis on physical (layout) reusability

  • Detailed presentation of reuse-compatible techniques that improve the analog and mixed-signal design flow by minimizing the correction iterations between electrical and physical synthesis

  • Experimental demonstration of the trade-off between the additional effort required by implementing reuse and its derived benefits in accelerated design

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Introduction

    • R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ, F.V. FERNÁNDEZ, O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ
    Pages 1-25
  3. A Reuse-based Design Framework for Analog ICs

    • R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ, F.V. FERNÁNDEZ, O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ
    Pages 27-62
  4. The Analog Reusable Block: Behavioral Facet

    • R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ, F.V. FERNÁNDEZ, O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ
    Pages 63-88
  5. The Analog Reusable Block: Structural Facet

    • R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ, F.V. FERNÁNDEZ, O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ
    Pages 89-122
  6. The Analog Reusable Block: Layout Facet

    • R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ, F.V. FERNÁNDEZ, O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ
    Pages 123-205
  7. Design Examples and Silicon Prototype

    • R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ, F.V. FERNÁNDEZ, O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ
    Pages 207-288
  8. Layout-Aware Circuit Sizing

    • R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ, F.V. FERNÁNDEZ, O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ
    Pages 289-345
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 371-393

About this book

Aiming at the core of the problem, Reuse Based Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits presents a framework for the reuse-based design of AMS circuits. The framework is founded on three key elements: (1) a CAD-supported hierarchical design flow that facilitates the incorporation of AMS reusable blocks, reduces the overall design time, and expedites the management of increasing AMS design complexity; (2) a complete, clear definition of the AMS reusable block, structured into three separate facets or views: the behavioral, structural, and layout facets, the first two for top-down electrical synthesis and bottom-up verification, the latter used during bottom-up physical synthesis; (3) the design for reusability set of tools, methods, and guidelines that, relying on intensive parameterization as well as on design knowledge capture and encapsulation, allows to produce fully reusable AMS blocks.

Reuse Based Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits features a very detailed, tutorial, and in-depth coverage of all issues and must-have properties of reusable AMS blocks, as well as a thorough description of the methods and tools necessary to implement them. For the first time, this has been done hierarchically, covering one by one the different stages of the design flow, allowing us to examine how the reusable block yields its benefits, both in design time and correct performance.

Keywords

  • Analog and Mixed-Signal
  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
  • EDA Methodologies
  • Filter
  • Layout
  • Layout-aware Synthesis
  • RAM
  • Reuse-based Design
  • architecture
  • automation
  • complexity
  • development
  • integrated circuit
  • model
  • modeling

Authors and Affiliations

  • IMSE-CNM-CSIC, Spain

    R. CASTRO-LÓPEZ

  • IMSE-CNM-CSIC, University of Seville, Spain

    F.V. FERNÁNDEZ

  • University of Seville, Spain

    O. GUERRA-VINUESA, Á. RODRÍGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ

About the authors

Prof. Ángel Rodríguez-Vázquez has authored and edited numerous books for Springer and Kluwer

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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