A 18 Mb/s BiCMOS disk drive data separator

Author

Condito, Vincent ; Lin, Chao

fYear

1990

fDate

13-16 May 1990

Abstract

A high-performance BiCMOS data separator IC has been created with a 1.5 GHz NPN FT, 2 μm EXAR modular CMOS process. Equivalent performance to bipolar implementations have been achieved at one half of the die size and nearly one quarter of the power. A versatile N2000 EXAR process and cell library was used for this design. The process features a well-characterized cell library containing nearly all required cells. Minimal cell design or adaption was necessary. The addition of two mask layers for buried layer and p base allows the inclusion of both an npn transistor and a lateral pnp device. There are 16 mask steps used. The process has two levels of metal and dual poly for interconnection

Keywords

BIMOS integrated circuits; floppy discs; logic arrays; 16 mask steps; 18 Mbyte/s; 2 micron; BiCMOS; EXAR modular CMOS process; N2000 EXAR process; buried layer; cell library; disk drive data separator; dual poly for interconnection; p base; two levels of metal; two mask layers; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS process; Disk drives; Frequency synchronization; Optical signal processing; Particle separators; Phase detection; Software libraries; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1990., Proceedings of the IEEE 1990

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.1990.124743

Filename

124743