Lager is an integrated CAD system for algorithmspecific IC design. It consists of a behavioral mapper and a silicon assembler. To generate a chip from a behavioral description, the user specifies both the behavioral description and a parameterized structural description. The behavioral mapper maps the behavior onto the parameterized structure to produce microcode and parameter values. The silic...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It has been a great privilege to be a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Texas Tech University and work closely with my advisor Prof. Dr. Kwong S. Chao. His keen insight into system and integrated circuit design is the key factor in the success of this research. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Sunanda Mitra, for her willingness...

SIGMA Adequate and understandable MOSFET models are presently a must for the design of integrated circuits. Most of the existing MOSFET models, however, are too complex andor do not comply with basic principles of physics. We propose here the use of ACM model, a very simple transistor model, together with a set of easily implemented experiments to determine the ACM parameters for the training o...

Continuous advancements in integrated circuit design and the constant development of a diverse set of computing applications, paved the way for versatile mobile devices that we use on daily basis. The dependency of these devices on battery as the main power source imposed strict constraints on the energy consumption of applications that run on these mobile devices. In this paper, we present a c...

This paper covers the evaluation and fine-tuning of different values of genetic operator’s parameters in the process of optimizing the designs of the integrated circuits. We investigated the interdependence of various values of these parameters in the use over the set of test-bench circuits, as well as their influence on the quality of the final solution and the convergence speed. Due to the in...

Until recently, integrated circuit design was based on the following contract between design andmanufacturing: designs are to follow a set of manufacturing-driven constraints (commonly known as ‘design rules’), and manufacturing is to meet the performance and yield targets in producing the specified design. This arrangement worked for many years until the designs of sub-100nmnodes came along, w...

The wireless communication systems design plays the important roles in the field of microelectronics and system-on-chip methodologies. Traditional digital, mixed signal and analog low-frequency designers have enjoyed an integrated front-to-back IC design system. On the other hand, radio frequency or microwave designers with a discrete design background have used board-level computer-aided desig...

Integrated circuit design advances into the nanoscale era towards more compact, higher performance and lower power devices. However, the large number of transistors per die has entailed an increase of device variability due to subwavelength lithography and layout complexity impacting manufacturability. Therefore, regular designs has emerged as an alternative cell design style towards more litho...

Modern integrated circuits (IC) operate in environment of various destabilizing factors which have essential influence on the operation of these circuits and often even disturb the normal operation. One of these destabilizing factors is the cosmic radiation, particularly total ionization dose effects (TID). For modern TID tolerant ICs [1-4] design is being done by circuit designers. In this pap...