Custom-Specific Integrated Circuits

Custom-Specific Integrated Circuits
Author: Hurst
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1985-03-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780824773021

In the semiconductor industry, cutting basic design time of microelectronics is by far the most cost-effective measure for keeping production budgets in line. Custom-Specific Integrated Circuits thoroughly considers the various methods available to reduce the design time of a microelectronic circuit to fit a specialized requirement! This important work explores the principles of both bipolar and MOS technologies, and provides in-depth coverage of the many avenues which enable system designers to incorporate specific needs into an integrated-circuit form. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this reference compares and contrasts all the techniques of custom an semicustom design and fabrication, including programmable arrays, masterslice arrays, cell libraries, and full custom ... examines the principles of placement and routing of regular structures ... presents convenient chapter summaries for quick review of essential material ... and offers physics fundamentals for basic understanding while concentrating on practical system design. Ideal for both the practicing engineer and graduate-level engineering student, this outstanding book gives electrical, electronic, design, computer, mechanical, and control engineers, as well as electrical, electronic, and computer science engineering students, the contemporary, "hands-on" coverage needed to master Custom-Specific Integrated Circuits. Book jacket.

Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide

Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide
Author: Trent McConaghy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461422698

This book targets custom IC designers who are encountering variation issues in their designs, especially for modern process nodes at 45nm and below, such as statistical process variations, environmental variations, and layout effects. It teaches them the state-of-the-art in Variation-Aware Design tools, which help the designer to analyze quickly the variation effects, identify the problems, and fix the problems. Furthermore, this book describes the algorithms and algorithm behavior/performance/limitations, which is of use to designers considering these tools, designers using these tools, CAD researchers, and CAD managers.

Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide

Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide
Author: Trent McConaghy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146142268X

This book targets custom IC designers who are encountering variation issues in their designs, especially for modern process nodes at 45nm and below, such as statistical process variations, environmental variations, and layout effects. It teaches them the state-of-the-art in Variation-Aware Design tools, which help the designer to analyze quickly the variation effects, identify the problems, and fix the problems. Furthermore, this book describes the algorithms and algorithm behavior/performance/limitations, which is of use to designers considering these tools, designers using these tools, CAD researchers, and CAD managers.

Integrated Circuits

Integrated Circuits
Author: Peter Shepherd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 1996-11-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1349136565

Integrated circuits have revolutionised the world of electronics and the associated areas of computing and communication. In past years the tasks of designing, manufacturing and testing these types of circuit were restricted to a few specialist engineers. However, within recent years the proliferation of computer tools and affordable access to IC manufacturing foundries has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of people designing ICs for the first time, both in universities and colleges and in industry. This book introduces the reader to all aspects of IC design, manufacture and testing with a minimum of mathematics, but with relevant examples at each stage. It examines the overall design strategies, the engineering trade-offs and the advantages, disadvantages and optimum applications of each available technology.

Analog Circuit Design

Analog Circuit Design
Author: Jim Williams
Publisher: Newnes
Total Pages: 409
Release: 1991-06-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0750696400

This book is far more than just another tutorial or reference guide - it's a tour through the world of analog design, combining theory and applications with the philosophies behind the design process. Readers will learn how leading analog circuit designers approach problems and how they think about solutions to those problems. They'll also learn about the `analog way' - a broad, flexible method of thinking about analog design tasks. A comprehensive and useful guide to analog theory and applications Covers visualizing the operation of analog circuits Looks at how to rapidly determine workable approximations of analog circuit parameters

Design Of High-speed Communication Circuits

Design Of High-speed Communication Circuits
Author: Ramesh Harjani
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2006-01-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9814479020

MOS technology has rapidly become the de facto standard for mixed-signal integrated circuit design due to the high levels of integration possible as device geometries shrink to nanometer scales. The reduction in feature size means that the number of transistor and clock speeds have increased significantly. In fact, current day microprocessors contain hundreds of millions of transistors operating at multiple gigahertz. Furthermore, this reduction in feature size also has a significant impact on mixed-signal circuits. Due to the higher levels of integration, the majority of ASICs possesses some analog components. It has now become nearly mandatory to integrate both analog and digital circuits on the same substrate due to cost and power constraints. This book presents some of the newer problems and opportunities offered by the small device geometries and the high levels of integration that is now possible.The aim of this book is to summarize some of the most critical aspects of high-speed analog/RF communications circuits. Attention is focused on the impact of scaling, substrate noise, data converters, RF and wireless communication circuits and wireline communication circuits, including high-speed I/O.

Analog Circuit Design

Analog Circuit Design
Author: Willy Sansen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1996-10-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0792397762

This book contains the revised contributions of all the speakers of the fifth AACD Workshop which was held in Lausanne on April 2-4, 1996. It was organized by Dr Vlado Valence of the EPFL University and MEAD of Lausanne. The program consisted of six tutorials per day during three days. The tutorials were presented by experts in the field. They were selected by a program committee consisting of Prof. Willy Sansen of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Prof. Rudy van de Plassche of Philips Research and the University of Technology Eindhoven and Prof. 10han Huijsing of the Delft University of Technology. The three topics mentioned above have been selected because of their importance in present days analog design. The other topics that have been discussed before are: in 1992 : Operational amplifiers Analog to digital convereters Analog computer aided design in 1993 : Mixed AID cicuit design Sensor interface circuits Communication circuits in 1994 : Low-power low-voltage design Integrated filters Smart power circuits in 1995 : Low-noise, low-power, low-voltage design Mixed-mode design with CAD tools Voltage, current and time references Each AACD workhop has given rise to the publication of a book by Kluwer entitled "Analog Circuit Design". This is thus the fifth book. This series of books provides a valuable overview of all analog circuit design techniques and achievements. It is a reference for whoever is engaged in this discipline.

Circuit Design: Know It All

Circuit Design: Know It All
Author: Darren Ashby
Publisher: Newnes
Total Pages: 1249
Release: 2011-04-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080949657

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf!Electronics Engineers need to master a wide area of topics to excel. The Circuit Design Know It All covers every angle including semiconductors, IC Design and Fabrication, Computer-Aided Design, as well as Programmable Logic Design. - A 360-degree view from our best-selling authors - Topics include fundamentals, Analog, Linear, and Digital circuits - The ultimate hard-working desk reference; all the essential information, techniques and tricks of the trade in one volume

Fundamentals of Layout Design for Electronic Circuits

Fundamentals of Layout Design for Electronic Circuits
Author: Jens Lienig
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030392848

This book covers the fundamental knowledge of layout design from the ground up, addressing both physical design, as generally applied to digital circuits, and analog layout. Such knowledge provides the critical awareness and insights a layout designer must possess to convert a structural description produced during circuit design into the physical layout used for IC/PCB fabrication. The book introduces the technological know-how to transform silicon into functional devices, to understand the technology for which a layout is targeted (Chap. 2). Using this core technology knowledge as the foundation, subsequent chapters delve deeper into specific constraints and aspects of physical design, such as interfaces, design rules and libraries (Chap. 3), design flows and models (Chap. 4), design steps (Chap. 5), analog design specifics (Chap. 6), and finally reliability measures (Chap. 7). Besides serving as a textbook for engineering students, this book is a foundational reference for today’s circuit designers. For Slides and Other Information: https://www.ifte.de/books/pd/index.html

Asynchronous Digital Circuit Design

Asynchronous Digital Circuit Design
Author: Graham Birtwistle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 144713575X

As the costs of power and timing become increasingly difficult to manage in traditional synchronous systems, designers are being forced to look at asynchronous alternatives. Based on reworked and expanded papers from the VII Banff Higher Order Workshop, this volume examines asynchronous methods which have been used in large circuit design, ranging from initial formal specification to more standard finite state machine based control models. Written by leading practitioners in the area, the papers cover many aspects of current practice including practical design, silicon compilation, and applications of formal specification. It also includes a state-of-the-art survey of asynchronous hardware design. The resulting volume will be invaluable to anyone interested in designing correct asynchronous circuits which exhibit high performance or low power operation.