Analog Circuit Design For Process Variation-Resilient Systems-On-A-Chip

This book describes several techniques to address variation-related design challenges for analog blocks in mixed-signal systems-on-chip. The methods presented are results from recent research works involving receiver front-end circuits, baseband filter linearization, and data conversion. These circuit-level techniques are described, with their relationships to emerging system-level calibration approaches, to tune the performances of analog circuits with digital assistance or control. Coverage also includes a strategy to utilize on-chip temperature sensors to measure the signal power and linearity characteristics of analog/RF circuits, as demonstrated by test chip measurements. Describes a variety of variation-tolerant analog circuit design examples, including from RF front-ends, high-performance ADCs and baseband filters; Includes built-in testing techniques, linked to current industrial trends; Balances digitally-assisted performance tuning with analog performance tuning and mismatch reduction approaches; Describes theoretical concepts as well as experimental results for test chips designed with variation-aware techniques.

• • Author: Marvin Onabajo, Jose Silva-Martinez
• • Publisher: Springer
• • Publication Date: Apr 16, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 192 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1489992960
• • ISBN-13: 9781489992963