Increasing analog programmability in SoCs

  • Authors:
  • Erik Schüler;Luigi Carro

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brasil;Department of Electrical Engineering, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The use of programmability in Systems-on-Chip (SoC) brings as the main advantage the possibility of reducing the time-to-market and the cost of design, specially when different systems and functions must cover different markets, going from low-power and low-frequency instrumentation to high frequency communication. This paper presents a technique that can be used to increase the analog programmability in a SoC, also allowing one to integrate more analog functions, while guaranteeing the use of the analog part in a larger range of applications. Practical results are presented showing that the proposed technique can be used from DC to RF applications.