A fully-complementary BiCMOS array for mixed analog/digital applications

Author

Declercq, M. ; Duchene, P. ; Ballane, H. ; Grigorie, M. ; Reimann, T. ; Baechler, T.

Author_Institution

Electron Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1993

fDate

9-12 May 1993

Abstract

A novel fully complementary BiCMOS transistor array dedicated to high-performance digital or mixed analog/digital circuits is presented. Array architecture, design methodology, and circuit topologies that take full advantage of the new array features are discussed. Characteristics of analog and digital circuits integrated on the array are presented and compared to those of their full-custom counterpart. It is shown that the speed of digital circuits is comparable to that of the full-custom ones, while for analog circuits the dynamic performance is degraded by a factor of about 20%

Keywords

BiCMOS logic circuits; array architecture; circuit topologies; design methodology; digital circuit speed; dynamic performance; fully-complementary BiCMOS array; high-performance; mixed analog-digital application; semi-custom; Application specific integrated circuits; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Circuit topology; Digital circuits; Flexible printed circuits; Laboratories; Routing; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE 1993

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0826-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.1993.590760

Filename

590760