Title :
Low-power, small-area 10 bit D/A converter for cell-based IC
Author :
Otsuka, M. ; Ichiki, S. ; Tsukada, T. ; Matsuura, T. ; Maio, K.
Author_Institution :
Semicond. Dev. Center, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
A low-power, small-area, 10-bit D/A converter for cell-based IC and its design method are presented. An analytical design method which minimizes power dissipation and cell area of a current-cell D/A converter taking process variation into account is proposed. A 10-bit, 500-kHz D/A converter was implemented using the proposed method. A low power dissipation of 9.7 mW, a small area of 1.31 mm/sup 2/, and a differential non-linearity of /spl plusmn/1/8 LSB has been achieved using a 0.8-/spl mu/m CMOS process.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; digital-analogue conversion; integrated circuit design; 0.8 micron; 10 bit; 500 kHz; 9.7 mW; CMOS process; analytical design; cell-based IC; differential nonlinearity; low-power small-area D/A converter; power dissipation; process variation; CMOS process; Capacitors; Central Processing Unit; Design methodology; MOSFETs; Matrix converters; Power dissipation; Read only memory; Semiconductor device noise; Video signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Low Power Electronics, 1995., IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3036-6
DOI :
10.1109/LPE.1995.482466
