Development of an analogue microprocessor

Author

Grundy, D.L. ; Bozic, M. ; Hatfield, J V

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 Jan 1997

Firstpage

420

Lastpage

424

Abstract

Progress towards the development of a reconfigurable analogue cell array is reported. The integrated circuit array can be thought of as an Analogue Microprocessor (AMP) analogous in many ways to its digital counterpart. The essential feature of the AMP is that it performs concurrent processing of analogue signals in continuous time. The processors of the array have a simple instruction set, typically ADD, NEGATE, LOG, ANTILOG, INTEGRATE, RECTIFY, etc. The array is digitally field programmable; ultimately yielding a device in the analogue domain comparable to logic cell arrays in the digital domain

Keywords

VLSI; analogue integrated circuits; analogue processing circuits; cellular arrays; analogue microprocessor; concurrent processing; digitally field programmable array; integrated circuit array; reconfigurable analogue cell array; Costs; Design automation; Field programmable analog arrays; Manufacturing; Microprocessors; Process design; Programmable logic arrays; Signal processing; Signal sampling; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, 1997. Proceedings., Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7755-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVD.1997.568169

Filename

568169