Circuit-level considerations for mixed-signal programmable components

System-level Synthesis using Re-programmable Components

We formulate the synthesis problem of complex behavioral descriptions with performance constraints as a hardware-software co-design problem. The target system architecture consists of a software component as a program running on a re-programmable processor assisted by application-specific hardware components. System synthesis is performed by first partitioning the input system description into ...

Electrostatic Discharge Protection Circuit for High-Speed Mixed-Signal Circuits

ESD, the discharge of electrostatically generated charges into an IC, is one of the most important reliability problems for ultra-scaled devices. This electrostatic charge can generate voltages of up to tens of kilovolts. These very high voltages can generate very high electric fields and currents across semiconductor devices, which may result in dielectric damage or melting of semiconductors a...

A substrate noise circuit for accurately testing mixed-signal ICs

Applications of floating-gate based programmable mixed-signal reconfigurable systems

A Novel Mixed Signal Programmable Device with On-chip Microprocessor

In this paper we present a novel field programmable mixedsignal integrated device consisting of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a set of programmable and interconnectable analog cells, and a microprocessor core. This processor can run general purpose user programs, handle the dynamic reconfiguration of the programmable blocks and probe in real time internal digital and analog signals. T...