Design-Reuse

A Digital Design Flow for Differential ECL High Speed Applications

This paper presents a digital design flow in order to design high performance differential Emitter Coupled Logic (ECL) circuits efficiently. The proposed flow is similar to the ordinary digital CMOS ...
EDN

Successful PCB grounding with mixed-signal chips – Part 1: Principles of current flow

Board-level designers often have concerns about the proper way to handle grounding for integrated circuits (ICs) which have separate analog and digital grounds. Should the two be completely separate ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Electrothermal Mechanical Stress Reference Design Flow For Printed Circuit Boards And Electronic Packages

This paper presents a reference design flow for solving the electrical, thermal and mechanical challenges of a printed circuit board (PCB) using simulation tools from ANSYS. This approach can be ...
EDN

Using synthesis in the analog-design flow

Analog-synthesis tools provide great potential for speeding the design process for analog circuits. This capability is especially important in mixed-signal-system-on-chip design, in which the analog ...
Semiconductor Engineering

How To Improve Analog Design Reuse

Digital circuit design is largely automated today, but most analog components still are designed manually. This may change soon. As analog design grows increasingly complex and error-prone, design ...
Electronic Design

DFT Strategies for SOC Designs

Many IC designers finally have embraced design for testability (DFT) in the form of scan insertion for digital circuit designs because of the significant time-to-production advantages these techniques ...
Design-Reuse

Preservation of Circuit Structure and Timing during Fault Emulation in FPGA

This paper presents a technique that allows to preserve structure of a circuit according to a target technology during fault emulation in FPGA. The technique is not restricted to any target technology ...