A Continuous-Time Hexagonal Field-Programmable Analog Array in 0.13μm CMOS with 186MHz GBW

Author

Becker, J. ; Henrici, F. ; Trendelenburg, S. ; Ortmanns, M. ; Manoli, Y.

Author_Institution

IMTEK, Univ. of Freiburg, Freiburg

fYear

2008

fDate

3-7 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

596

Abstract

The high non-recurring engineering costs of integrated circuit design make rapid-prototyping an important field of microelectronics. For digital circuits, FPGAs are highly developed and have become indispensable as both development tools and application platforms. In contrast, the nature of analog circuits is much more complex and does not readily allow a mapping of any arbitrary analog behavior to a generic set of basic building-blocks and routing nodes. Therefore, field-programmable analog arrays (FPAAs) are very specific to the target application and have poor performance when compared to single-purpose ASICs.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field programmable analogue arrays; integrated circuit design; analog circuit; continuous-time hexagonal FPGA; digital circuit; field-programmable analog array; frequency 186 MHz; integrated circuit design; rapid-prototyping; size 0.13 mum; Bandwidth; Distortion measurement; Field programmable analog arrays; Filters; Parasitic capacitance; Semiconductor device measurement; Signal design; Switches; Transconductors; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2010-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2011-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523061

Filename

4523061