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The design and development of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) is becoming increasingly expensive, complex, and lengthy. Rapid prototyping and emulation of analog ICs will be significant in the design and testing of complex analog systems. A new approach, Programmable ANalog Device Array (PANDA) that maps any AMS design problem

The design and development of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) is becoming increasingly expensive, complex, and lengthy. Rapid prototyping and emulation of analog ICs will be significant in the design and testing of complex analog systems. A new approach, Programmable ANalog Device Array (PANDA) that maps any AMS design problem to a transistor-level programmable hardware, is proposed. This approach enables fast system level validation and a reduction in post-Silicon bugs, minimizing design risk and cost. The unique features of the approach include 1) transistor-level programmability that emulates each transistor behavior in an analog design, achieving very fine granularity of reconfiguration; 2) programmable switches that are treated as a design component during analog transistor emulating, and optimized with the reconfiguration matrix; 3) compensation of AC performance degradation through boosting the bias current. Based on these principles, a digitally controlled PANDA platform is designed at 45nm node that can map AMS modules across 22nm to 90nm technology nodes. A systematic emulation approach to map any analog transistor to 45nm PANDA cell is proposed, which achieves transistor level matching accuracy of less than 5% for ID and less than 10% for Rout and Gm. Circuit level analog metrics of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) emulated by PANDA, match to those of the original designs in 22nm and 90nm nodes with less than a 5% error. Several other 90nm and 22nm analog blocks are successfully emulated by the 45nm PANDA platform, including a folded-cascode operational amplifier and a sample-and-hold module (S/H). Further capabilities of PANDA are demonstrated by the first full-chip silicon of PANDA which is implemented on 65nm process This system consists of a 24×25 cell array, reconfigurable interconnect and configuration memory. The voltage and current reference circuits, op amps and a VCO with a phase interpolation circuit are emulated by PANDA.
ContributorsSuh, Jounghyuk (Author) / Bakkaloglu, Bertan (Thesis advisor) / Cao, Yu (Committee member) / Ozev, Sule (Committee member) / Kozicki, Michael (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2013
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The research objective is fully differential op-amp with common mode feedback, which are applied in filter, band gap, Analog Digital Converter (ADC) and so on as a fundamental component in analog circuit. Having modeled various defect and analyzed corresponding probability, defect library could be built after reduced defect simulation.Based on

The research objective is fully differential op-amp with common mode feedback, which are applied in filter, band gap, Analog Digital Converter (ADC) and so on as a fundamental component in analog circuit. Having modeled various defect and analyzed corresponding probability, defect library could be built after reduced defect simulation.Based on the resolution of microscope scan tool, all these defects are categorized into four groups of defects by both function and location, bias circuit defect, first stage amplifier defect, output stage defect and common mode feedback defect, separately. Each fault result is attributed to one of these four region defects.Therefore, analog testing algorithm and automotive tool could be generated to assist testing engineers to meet the demand of large numbers of chips.
ContributorsLu, Zhijian (Author) / Ozev, Sule (Thesis advisor) / Kiaei, Sayfe (Committee member) / Ogras, Umit Y. (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
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High speed current-steering DACs with high linearity are needed in today's applications such as wired and wireless communications, instrumentation, radar, and other direct digital synthesis (DDS) applications. However, a trade-off exists between the speed and resolution of Nyquist rate current-steering DACs. As the resolution increases, more transistor area

High speed current-steering DACs with high linearity are needed in today's applications such as wired and wireless communications, instrumentation, radar, and other direct digital synthesis (DDS) applications. However, a trade-off exists between the speed and resolution of Nyquist rate current-steering DACs. As the resolution increases, more transistor area is required to meet matching requirements for optimal linearity and thus, the overall speed of the DAC is limited.

In this thesis work, a 12-bit current-steering DAC was designed with current sources scaled below the required matching size to decrease the area and increase the overall speed of the DAC. By scaling the current sources, however, errors due to random mismatch between current sources will arise and additional calibration hardware is necessary to ensure 12-bit linearity. This work presents how to implement a self-calibration DAC that works to fix amplitude errors while maintaining a lower overall area. Additionally, the DAC designed in this thesis investigates the implementation feasibility of a data-interleaved architecture. Data interleaving can increase the total bandwidth of the DACs by 2 with an increase in SQNR by an additional 3 dB.

The final results show that the calibration method can effectively improve the linearity of the DAC. The DAC is able to run up to 400 MSPS frequencies with a 75 dB SFDR performance and above 87 dB SFDR performance at update rates of 200 MSPS.
ContributorsJankunas, Benjamin (Author) / Bakkaloglu, Bertan (Thesis advisor) / Kitchen, Jennifer (Committee member) / Ozev, Sule (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
ContributorsMarohnic, Chuck (Performer) / Morgan, Lanny (Performer) / Chuck Marohnic Trio (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1990-09-12
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Moio, Dom (Contributor) / Jazz Bones (Performer) / Latin Ensemble (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2003-03-31
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / New Music Jazz Ensemble (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2005-04-20
ContributorsFoster, Gary (Performer) / Kelly, Keith (Performer) / Lloyd, Michael (Performer) / Marshall, Shea (Performer) / Crotty, Mike, 1950- (Performer) / Lennex, Matt (Performer) / Stephan, Garrett (Performer) / O'Neill, Deater (Performer) / Mottola, Anna Maria (Performer) / Schuster, Aaron (Performer) / Moore, Rob (Performer) / New Music Jazz Ensemble (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2003-04-02
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Concert Jazz Band (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2004-03-30
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Director) / Concert Jazz Band (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2005-04-12
ContributorsCrotty, Mike, 1950- (Performer) / O'Neill, Deater (Performer) / Vadala, Chris (Performer) / Marohnic, Chuck (Performer) / Jones, Warren (Performer) / Moio, Dom (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1999-03-11