MxSICO: a silicon compiler for mixed analog digital circuits

A silicon compiler for mixed analog-digital (A/D) circuits and the results and examples of compilation are presented. The tool addresses the compilation of sampled-data analog circuits and bit/nibble serial digital circuits. The class of designs targeted by the compiler are high-performance medium-speed sampled-data analog circuits including oversampled A/D converters and bit/nibble serial digital circuits. The compiler is targeted for the compilation of noise shaping oversampled A/D converters including anti-aliasing filtering, modulation, and decimation. The details of the approach and the algorithms within a general framework are presented. The approach includes a mixed A/D design description language and its compiler, automatic partitioning of analog and digital subcircuits, the digital compilation, analog synthesis, module compilation, and physical assembly