Smart AD and DA converters

Author

Van Roermund, Arthur ; Hegt, Hans ; Harpe, Pieter ; Radulov, Georgi ; Zanikopoulos, Athon ; Doris, Konstantinos ; Quinn, Patrick

Author_Institution

Mixed-signal Microelectron. Group, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2005

fDate

23-26 May 2005

Firstpage

4062

Abstract

In this paper, a concept is proposed to solve the problems related to the embedding of AD and DA converters in system-on-chips, FPGAs or other VLSI solutions. Problems like embedded testing, yield, reliability and reduced design space become crucial bottlenecks in the integration of high-performance mixed-signal cores in VLSI chips. On the other hand, a trend of increasing digital processing power can be observed in almost all these systems. The presented smart approach takes full advantage of this trend in order to solve the before mentioned problems and to achieve true system integration.

Keywords

VLSI; analogue-digital conversion; digital-analogue conversion; field programmable gate arrays; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; system-on-chip; FPGA; SoC; VLSI chips; digital processing; embedded converters; embedded testing; mixed-signal cores; reduced design space; reliability; smart AD converters; smart DA converters; system integration; system-on-chip; yield; Analog integrated circuits; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit testing; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microelectronics; Noise level; Power system reliability; System-on-a-chip; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8834-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465523

Filename

1465523