Advanced instrument controller ASIC

Author

Davis, Scott ; Braatz, Jim ; Clement, Jay ; Honda, Diane

Author_Institution

Solid State Electron. Dept., Boeing Co., Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

6

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

478

Abstract

In this paper, a ruggedized ultra-low power 16 Mhz 8051-based data acquisition and control microcontroller ASIC with modest data processing capability designed and fabricated in National Semiconductor´s 0.35 micron 3-level metal CMOS7 technology is presented. The Advanced Instrument Controller 8051 (AIC51) was designed for the Mars Microprobe Mission or Deep Space 2 technology-validation mission in NASA´s New Millenium program. The design process from system level tradeoffs, architecture considerations, implementation, low-power design strategies, power analysis and layout generation and verification is described. Techniques for low-power design and verification are discussed

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; aerospace control; application specific integrated circuits; data acquisition; low-power electronics; microcontrollers; physical instrumentation control; space vehicle electronics; 0.35 micron; 16 MHz; AIC51; ASIC microcontroller; Advanced Instrument Controller 8051; CMOS technology; Deep Space 2 technology; Mars Microprobe Mission; NASA New Millenium program; data acquisition; data control; data processing; ultra-low-power design; verification; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Data acquisition; Data processing; Instruments; Mars; Microcontrollers; Process design; Space missions; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1999. ISCAS '99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5471-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1999.780198

Filename

780198