CMOS data converters for communications
CMOS data converters for communications
Distortion Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits
Distortion Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
Design of pipeline analog-to-digital converters via geometric programming
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Support vector machines for analog circuit performance representation
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
High-Level Design Case of a Switched-Capacitor Low-Pass Filter Using Verilog-A
BMAS '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/ACM international workshop on Behavioral modeling and simulation
DONALD: a workbench for interactive design space exploration and sizing of analog circuits
EURO-DAC '91 Proceedings of the conference on European design automation
A Methodology for System-Level Analog Design Space Exploration
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Benefits and challenges for platform-based design
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
Mixed signal design space exploration through analog platforms
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Design space exploration for a UMTS front-end exploiting analog platforms
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Efficient analog platform characterization through analog constraint graphs
ICCAD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Performance-centering optimization for system-level analog design exploration
ICCAD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Robust system level design with analog platforms
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
A platform-based methodology for system-level mixed-signal design
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - Special issue on design methodologies and innovative architectures for mixed-signal embedded systems
High-level modeling of resistor string based digital-to-analog converters
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
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We apply Platform-Based Design (PBD) to the power optimization of a 14 bit, 80 MS/s pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) in a mixed signal formulation. A platform is a library of components and interconnects, each characterized with a set of behavioral, performance and composition models, that is used to raise the level of abstraction to enable system-level design. PBD is a meet-in-the-middle methodology that consists of two phases. The bottom-up phase generates a set of platform libraries that are exploited in the system hierarchy. The top-down phase allows exploring feasible solutions within the platform libraries and selecting the optimum implementation. To evaluate the cost of each implementation, the behavioral models available through platform abstraction are used both for digital and analog components. We provide an example of the use of the methodology and its features for analog circuits by modeling two amplifiers with different topologies as analog components, showing details of the analog characterization process. Then, we create a mixed signal platform library as a combination of an analog and a digital platform (bottom-up phase). The top-down phase performs optimization across the analog/digital boundary to minimize power consumption constrained to given noise and linearity requirements. Simulation results show that interesting power saving can be achieved, as much as 64% compared with an original hand-optimized ADC.