Title :
A Highly Efficient Design System for Mixed Analog/Digital LSIs
Author :
Maio, Kenji ; Hayashi, Shinichi ; Furihata, Makoto ; Ogura, Setsuo ; Watanabe, Toshinori ; Ishikawa, Makoto
Author_Institution :
Semicond. Design & Dev. Center, Hitachi Ltd., Takasaki, Japan
Abstract :
An engineering system aimed to the highly efficient design of analog and/or mixed analog/digital custom LSIs is described. The system covers the areas of the system design using a new function level simulator, the circuit design and the layout by a circuit library and a layout library. The effectiveness of this engineering system is demonstrated through the design of a mixed analog/digital custom LSI for VCR use with about 5000 elements. This system has achieved the design efficiency of more than 1.5 times compared with the conventional methods.
Keywords :
analogue circuits; electronic engineering computing; integrated circuit layout; integrated circuit modelling; large scale integration; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; software libraries; analog design; circuit design; circuit layout; circuit library; function level simulator; highly efficient design system; layout library; mixed analog-digital LSI; mixed analog-digital custom LSI; Analog circuits; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Design engineering; Large scale integration; SPICE; Software libraries; Systems engineering and theory; Transfer functions; Video recording;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1989. ESSCIRC '89. Proceedings of the 15th European
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
3-85403-101-7
DOI :
10.1109/ESSCIRC.1989.5468145
