Digitally-Assisted Analog and Analog-Assisted Digital IC Design

Discover cutting-edge techniques for next-generation integrated circuit design, and learn how to deliver improved speed, density, power, and cost.

Xicheng Jiang (Edited by)

9781107096103, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 July 2015

413 pages, 327 b/w illus. 30 tables
25.2 x 18 x 2.3 cm, 0.97 kg

Achieve enhanced performance with this guide to cutting-edge techniques for digitally-assisted analog and analog-assisted digital integrated circuit design. • Discover how architecture and circuit innovations can deliver improved performance in terms of speed, density, power, and cost • Learn about practical design considerations for high-performance scaled CMOS processes, FinFet devices and architectures, and the implications of FD SOI technology • Get up to speed with established circuit techniques that take advantage of scaled CMOS process technology in analog, digital, RF and SoC designs, including digitally-assisted techniques for data converters, DSP enabled frequency synthesizers, and digital controllers for switching power converters. With detailed descriptions, explanations, and practical advice from leading industry experts, this is an ideal resource for practicing engineers, researchers, and graduate students working in circuit design.

1. CMOS technology scaling and its implications Tetsuya Iizuka
2. FinFETs: from devices to architectures Debajit Bhattacharya and Niraj K. Jha
3. FDSOI technology and its implications to analog and digital design Kangguo Cheng and Ali Khakifirooz
4. Challenges and emerging trend of DSP enabled frequency synthesizer Mike Shuo-Wei Chen
5. Digitally-assisted design of data converters Yun Chiu
6. CMOS self-healing techniques for calibration and optimization of mm-wave transceivers Adrian Tang and Frank M. C. Chang
7. Analog-assisted digital design in mobile SoCs Martin Saint-Laurent
8. Digitally-assisted RF design techniques Ray (Ramon) Gomez
9. Digital controller for switching power Man Pun Chan and Philip K. T. Mok.

Subject Areas: Instruments & instrumentation engineering [TBM], Technical design [TBD], Engineering: general [TBC]