Adaptive Techniques for Mixed Signal System on Chip

Adaptive Techniques for Mixed Signal Sytem on Chip discusses the concept of adaptation in the context of analog and mixed signal design along with different adaptive architectures used to control any system parameter. The first part of the book gives

  • PDF / 3,253,982 Bytes
  • 186 Pages / 453.544 x 680.315 pts Page_size
  • 37 Downloads / 192 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science VOLUME 872

Editors Ayman Fayed, Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA. Mohammed Ismail, Analog VLSI Lab, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Adaptive Techniques for Mixed Signal System on Chip by

Ayman Fayed Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. and

Mohammed Ismail Analog VLSI Lab, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-387-32154-3 (HB) 978-0-387-32154-3 (HB) 0-387-32154-3 ( e-book) 978-0-387-32154-3 (e-book)

Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

Printed on acid-free paper

All Rights Reserved © 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.

Dedication

To Layla, Lobna, my parents, and my country Egypt. And To Ismail, Jr., Omar, Tuula, and to Sameha and Ismail, Sr.

Contents

Dedication...................................................................................................... v Preface........................................................................................................... xi 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Categories of Variations in Analog and Mixed Signal ICs............... 2 1.1.1 Circuit Level Variations.................................................. 2 1.1.2 System Level Variations................................................... 4 1.1.3 Network Level Variations................................................ 5 1.2 The Essence of Adaptation............................................................... 5 1.3 The Process of Adaptation................................................................ 6 1.4 Book Outline.................................................................................... 8 2. Adaptive Architectures.......................................................................... 11 2.1 Automatic Tuning........................................................................... 12 2.1.1 Voltage, Current, and Time References........................ 16 2.1.2 Electronically Tunable Elements................................... 21 2.2 Post Fabrication Tuning.................................................................. 35 2.3 Summary......................................................................................... 36 3. Tunable Elements................................................................................... 39 3.1 Voltage-Controlled Transconductors.............................................. 39 3.1.1 A Triode-Based Voltage-Controlled Transconductor... 40

viii

Contents

3.1.2 An Improved Voltage-Controlled Transconduct

Data Loading...