Title :
Design issues of a standard cell BiCMOS carrier transceiver on low voltage power lines
Author :
Lazarescu, Mihai T. ; Sartori, Mario ; Civera, Pier Luigi
Author_Institution :
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Abstract :
In this paper are described some of the issues of the mixed signal standard cell VLSI design with emphasis on the practical experience resulted from designing a carrier transceiver in SGS-THOMSON 2 μm BiCMOS technology. Presented are the circuit block structure, some advantages and disadvantages of the standard cell design approach, the testing strategy we implemented, and finally some practical conclusions resulting from our experience
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; carrier transmission on power lines; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit testing; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; power transmission lines; transceivers; 2 micron; ASIC; SGS-THOMSON BiCMOS technology; carrier transceiver; low voltage power lines; mixed signal VLSI design; standard cell BiCMOS; testing strategy; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Explosions; Frequency synthesizers; Low voltage; Signal design; Transceivers; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Conference, 1995. CAS'95 Proceedings., 1995 International
Conference_Location :
Sinaia
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2647-4
DOI :
10.1109/SMICND.1995.495040
