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

Ralf Brederlow

doi:10.1149/04901.0035ecst

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

Ralf Brederlow

Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Microelectronics Technology and Devices, SBMicro 2012
Publisher	Electrochemical Society Inc.
Pages	35-39
Number of pages	5
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9781607683636
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1149/04901.0035ecst
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	27th Symposium on MicroelectronicsTechnology and Devices, SBMicro 2012 - Brasilia, Brazil Duration: 30 Aug 2012 → 2 Sep 2012

Publication series

Name	ECS Transactions
Number	1
Volume	49
ISSN (Print)	1938-5862
ISSN (Electronic)	1938-6737

Conference

Conference	27th Symposium on MicroelectronicsTechnology and Devices, SBMicro 2012
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Brasilia
Period	30/08/12 → 2/09/12

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