FIRGEN: a computer-aided design system for high performance FIR filter integrated circuits

Author

Jain, Rajeev ; Yang, Paul T. ; Yoshino, Toshiaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

39

Issue

7

fYear

1991

fDate

7/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1655

Lastpage

1668

Abstract

The authors describe automatic architecture and floorplan generation techniques for integrated circuit fixed-coefficient FIR (finite impulse response) filters that can achieve high sample rates with compact layouts. These techniques have been implemented in a filter design system called FIRGEN that can automate the entire design from filter specifications to final chip layout. It can be retargeted to new cell libraries and place and route tools. Result on four chips designed with FIRGEN are presented. These achieve sample rates ranging from 25 MHz to 112 MHz

Keywords

circuit layout CAD; digital filters; monolithic integrated circuits; CAD system; FIRGEN; HF; VHF; automatic architecture generation; automatic floorplan generation; cell libraries; chip layout; compact layouts; filter design system; filter specifications; finite impulse response; fixed coefficient FIR filters; integrated circuits; place and route tools; sample rates; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Design automation; Finite impulse response filter; IIR filters; Instruments; Integrated circuit layout; Software libraries; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-587X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/78.134402

Filename

134402