Title :
CATALYST: A highly flexible CAD tool for architecture-level design and analysis of data converters
Author :
Vital, João C. ; Horta, Nuno C. ; Silva, Nuno S. ; Franca, José E.
Author_Institution :
Integrated Circuits & Syst. Group, DEEC-Inst. Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
A CAD tool for architecture-level design and analysis of data converters covering a wide range of conversion specifications is described. Building block and functional models are included for performance verification and, for all synthesized data converter architectures, macromodels are generated with embedded statistical information concerning the nonlinearity characteristics. Such macromodels yield rather fast functional simulated results whose accuracy is similar with the accuracy of the results obtained through much slower and time consuming general purpose simulators
Keywords :
analogue-digital conversion; circuit CAD; circuit layout CAD; ADC; CATALYST tool; Nyquist band; architecture-level design; building block models; data converters; embedded statistical information; flexible CAD tool; functional models; macromodels; nonlinearity characteristics; performance verification; Analog-digital conversion; Analytical models; Character generation; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Data analysis; Design automation; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation, 1993, with the European Event in ASIC Design. Proceedings. [4th] European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3410-3
DOI :
10.1109/EDAC.1993.386430
