Experiences on analog circuit technology migration and reuse

Author

Acosta, RaÙl ; Silveira, Fernando ; Aguirre, Pablo

Author_Institution

Instituto de Ingenieria Electrica, Univ. de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

174

Abstract

This work deals with two aspects of the reuse and redesign of analog circuits. First, a method for technology migration of analog circuits, recently proposed by Galup-Montoro and Schneider (Proc. SBCCI2000, pp. 89-93, 2000), is validated experimentally in the redesign of a Miller OTA from a 2.4 μm technology to a 0.8 μm technology. In addition, the impact of the method on performance aspects of analog circuits not covered in the original proposal (slew rate and current mirror frequency response) is studied. As a second mechanism for allowing the reuse of analog circuits, the feasibility of the application of the reference bias current as a tuning parameter to customize the performance of an existing design to suit different applications is demonstrated.

Keywords

analogue integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; circuit tuning; current mirrors; frequency response; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit technology; operational amplifiers; 0.8 micron; 2.4 micron; Miller OTA; analog circuit performance; analog circuit redesign; analog circuit technology migration; analog circuit technology reuse; current mirror frequency response; design customization; reference bias current tuning parameter; slew rate; Analog circuits; Circuit optimization; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Frequency response; Integrated circuit synthesis; Integrated circuit technology; Mirrors; Proposals; Time to market;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, 2002. Proceedings. 15th Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1807-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBCCI.2002.1137654

Filename

1137654