Symbolic synthesis of analog-to-digital conversion architectures using direct-mapping techniques

This paper discusses a methodology for system level synthesis of Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs). The synthesis process takes symbolic or numeric user specifications as the input, transfers them into the choice of one or more possible architectures and directly maps the choosen ADC architecture into a functional topology. The different possible target ADC architectures are modeled as functional hierarchies within the knowledge-based software system. The algorithm hierarchically constructs a symbolic block level implementation of the architecture that best satisfies the given specifications