DocumentCode :
3266935
Title :
Maximizing the impact of power ICs via a time-to-market CAD driven power ASIC strategy
Author :
Mansmann, Jeff ; Shafer, Peter ; Wildi, Eric
Author_Institution :
Intelligent Power Products, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
fYear :
1992
fDate :
23-27 Feb 1992
Firstpage :
23
Lastpage :
27
Abstract :
Great strides have been made in developing silicon processes that provide the benefits of high-level integration to power circuits. A recent example of such work at Harris Semiconductor has been the development of a power application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) technology that allows integration on a single chip of a complete 1 MHz DC-DC converter. Despite such technological achievements, the marketplace further demands quick/low-risk design cycle times to capture opportunities before market windows close. It is also imperative to provide easy access to the technology for system-level designers, as opposed to traditional circuit designers, since they ultimately are knowledgeable and responsible for defining the function to be produced. The authors describe Harris´s PASIC technology and demonstrate how computer-aided design (CAD) tools and concurrent engineering methods have been applied to achieve the above objective
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; circuit CAD; concurrent engineering; power convertors; power integrated circuits; 1 MHz; DC-DC converter; Harris Semiconductor; PASIC; application-specific integrated circuit; computer-aided design; concurrent engineering; power IC; time-to-market CAD driven power ASIC; Application specific integrated circuits; Concurrent engineering; DC-DC power converters; Design automation; Libraries; Power integrated circuits; Power system modeling; Prototypes; SPICE; Time to market;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1992. APEC '92. Conference Proceedings 1992., Seventh Annual
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0485-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/APEC.1992.228435
Filename :
228435
Link To Document :
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