The human factor in mixed-signal design and its consequences for design and automation

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Abstract

The semiconductor industry historically has made strong statements about analog circuits to diminish in applications. In parallel electronic design automation (EDA) industry has been committed to enable a high level of analog design automation. However, today analog circuit design reality does not look very different to the status 10 years ago - and analog design is still a common discipline in semiconductor manufacturing. This paper will analyze reason why analog design is still important and why analog design automation is not as successful as its digital counterpart. It is shown that analog circuit complexity strongly increases with the trend towards building systems on chip. Therefore solving today's mixed signal design problems is becoming urgent. Overall here the situation is not very different from the digital verification crisis we have seen some years back in the past.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMicroelectronics Technology and Devices, SBMicro 2012
PublisherElectrochemical Society Inc.
Pages35-39
Number of pages5
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9781607683636
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event27th Symposium on MicroelectronicsTechnology and Devices, SBMicro 2012 - Brasilia, Brazil
Duration: 30 Aug 20122 Sep 2012

Publication series

NameECS Transactions
Number1
Volume49
ISSN (Print)1938-5862
ISSN (Electronic)1938-6737

Conference

Conference27th Symposium on MicroelectronicsTechnology and Devices, SBMicro 2012
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityBrasilia
Period30/08/122/09/12

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