Automatic full-custom design of high performance DSP chips

Author

Moscovitz, H.S. ; Bullman, W.R. ; Carelli, J.A. ; Fadavi-Ardekani, J. ; Mondal, Kamanashish ; O´Donnell, G.D.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Allentown, PA

fYear

1988

fDate

28 Nov-1 Dec 1988

Firstpage

1400

Abstract

An advanced automatic full-custom design method for high-performance application-specific digital signal processors (ASDSP) is described. The system allows a circuit to be developed with a rich mix of design techniques, including generators/macrocells, transistor and logic schematics, and C program descriptions. A suite of tools provides effective automatic transistor sizing and a cell compiler based automatic layout system. This allows the design of full-custom high-performance circuits with the same ease and design speed as standard cell and gate array systems. A high-performance (60 MHz) FIR (finite impulse response) filter is presented as an example of the method´s capability

Keywords

circuit CAD; circuit layout CAD; digital filters; digital signal processing chips; 60 MHz; C program descriptions; DSP chips; FIR filter; VHF; application-specific digital signal processors; automatic full-custom design; automatic transistor sizing; cell compiler based automatic layout system; finite impulse response; generators/macrocells; logic schematics; Circuits; Design methodology; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Finite impulse response filter; Logic design; Macrocell networks; Program processors; Transistors; Variable speed drives;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1988, and Exhibition. 'Communications for the Information Age.' Conference Record, GLOBECOM '88., IEEE

Conference_Location

Hollywood, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1988.26056

Filename

26056