Title :
A Silicon Compiler for a Particle Detector Chip
Author :
Burke, S A ; York, T.A. ; Hatfield, J V ; Comer, J ; Hicks, P J
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., UMIST, Manchester, UK
Abstract :
A silicon compiler has been produced which, from a short textual specification containing values of critical parameters, produces mask details for a particle counting chip. Initially it has been applied to a specific CMOS architecture having three distinct regions; a two dimensional array of sensitive electrodes with associated amplifiers and comparators, RAM for accumulating data and a controller. The compiler utilises a library of about 300 handcrafted cells and takes only 15 minutes to produce a 25 mm2 layout.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; amplifiers; comparators (circuits); counting circuits; integrated circuit layout; particle detectors; random-access storage; CMOS architecture; RAM; amplifiers; comparators; controller; critical parameter values; data accumulation; mask details; particle counting chip; particle detector chip; silicon compiler; two-dimensional sensitive electrode array; Circuits; Costs; Electrodes; Electrons; Humans; Libraries; Microchannel; Physics; Radiation detectors; Silicon compiler;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1990. ESSCIRC '90. Sixteenth European
Conference_Location :
Grenoble
Print_ISBN :
2-86332-087-4
