Mixed signal system design verification accelerated with detector-based diagnostic method

Author

Dammers, D. ; Domingues, C. ; Schollän, D. ; Vosskamper, L.M.

Author_Institution

Dolphin Integration, Duisburg, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

17-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

72

Abstract

Mixed-signal simulation of complete systems, i.e. pure analog/digital systems or electronics with its attached peripherals, such as sensor and actuator systems, already have a firm place in today´s design process. While the digital part verification has gained a speed increase through the use of Accllera´s Property Specification Language (PSL), the analog part suffers from not being supported by this language. To speed up the verification of the analog part innovation is needed. Based on assertion concepts, this paper presents an innovative methodology for the verification of mixed-signal circuits. Electrical validation of a sensor amplifier design serves as demonstrator for this methodology.

Keywords

amplifiers; electric sensing devices; hardware description languages; integrated circuit design; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; VHDL; detector-based diagnostic method; electrical validation; mixed signal system design verification; mixed-signal circuits; sensor amplifier design; Acceleration; Circuit faults; Circuit testing; Electrodes; Microfluidics; Micromechanical devices; Optimization; Routing; System testing; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Behavioral Modeling and Simulation Workshop, 2009. BMAS 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5358-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMAS.2009.5338887

Filename

5338887