HiFADiCC: a prototype framework of a highly flexible analog to digital converters silicon compiler

Author

Sabiro, S. Garcia ; Sen, Pintu ; Tawfik, M.S.

Author_Institution

ANACAD Comput. Syst., Grenoble, France

fYear

1990

fDate

1-3 May 1990

Firstpage

1114

Abstract

A new framework of a highly flexible, technology-independent, analog-to-digital-converters compiler (HiFADiCC) has been developed. It can generate successive-approximations analog-to-digital converters of 12-14-b precision clocked at 200 kHz up to an 8-b pipelined converter with the sampling frequency higher than 10 MHz. These performances are estimated by using a newly developed flexible A/D converter and a target technology of two-polysilicon, two-metal 1-μm CMOS. HiFADiCC consists of two tools: synthesis, which chooses and computes the structure of a successive-approximations converter according to the user´s specification, in a given technology; and generation, which transforms this structure into mask geometry with the help of a cell library

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; circuit CAD; circuit layout CAD; 1 micron; 200 kHz; A/D converter; CAD; CMOS; HiFADiCC; cell library; double poly/double metal process; mask geometry; pipelined converter; polysilicon process; prototype framework; silicon compiler; successive-approximations; Analog computers; Analog-digital conversion; CMOS technology; Chemical technology; Circuit synthesis; Clocks; Energy consumption; Prototypes; Silicon compiler; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1990., IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1990.112312

Filename

112312