A Highly Efficient Design System for Mixed Analog/Digital LSIs

Author

Maio, Kenji ; Hayashi, Shinichi ; Furihata, Makoto ; Ogura, Setsuo ; Watanabe, Toshinori ; Ishikawa, Makoto

Author_Institution

Semicond. Design & Dev. Center, Hitachi Ltd., Takasaki, Japan

fYear

1989

fDate

20-22 Sept. 1989

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

124

Abstract

An engineering system aimed to the highly efficient design of analog and/or mixed analog/digital custom LSIs is described. The system covers the areas of the system design using a new function level simulator, the circuit design and the layout by a circuit library and a layout library. The effectiveness of this engineering system is demonstrated through the design of a mixed analog/digital custom LSI for VCR use with about 5000 elements. This system has achieved the design efficiency of more than 1.5 times compared with the conventional methods.

Keywords

analogue circuits; electronic engineering computing; integrated circuit layout; integrated circuit modelling; large scale integration; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; software libraries; analog design; circuit design; circuit layout; circuit library; function level simulator; highly efficient design system; layout library; mixed analog-digital LSI; mixed analog-digital custom LSI; Analog circuits; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Design engineering; Large scale integration; SPICE; Software libraries; Systems engineering and theory; Transfer functions; Video recording;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1989. ESSCIRC '89. Proceedings of the 15th European

Conference_Location

Vienna

Print_ISBN

3-85403-101-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.1989.5468145

Filename

5468145