Title : 
Trapezoidal association of transistors for mixed analog-digital circuits design on SOT array
         
        
            Author : 
Choi, Jug H. ; Bampi, Sergio
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Microelectron. Group-GME, Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents advantages of CMOS trapezoidal association of transistors (TAT) aiming at semi-custom mixed analog/digital circuits design on Sea-Of-Transistors (SOT) array. Several types and structures of transistors were implemented to allow better comparison with the association of transistors of same size. The SOT unit cells are on fixed size array and experimental results are shown for a 1.0 μm digital technology
         
        
            Keywords : 
CMOS integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; circuit CAD; integrated circuit design; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; 1.0 micron; CMOS; SOT array; TAT; fixed size array; mixed analog-digital circuits design; sea-of-transistors (SOT) array; semi-custom circuits; trapezoidal association of transistors; unit cells; Analog circuits; Analog-digital conversion; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Circuit synthesis; Digital circuits; Geometry; Microelectronics; Routing; Shape control;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Design of Mixed-Mode Integrated Circuits and Applications, 1999. Third International Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Puerto Vallarta
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-5588-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MMICA.1999.833597