Abstract
A persistent criticism of analog synthesis techniques is that they cannot cope with the complexity of realistic industrial designs, especially system-level designs. We show how recent advances in simulation-based synthesis can be augmented, via appropriate macromodeling, to attack complex analog blocks. To support this claim, we resynthesize from scratch, in several different styles, a complex equalizer/filter block from the frontend of a commercial ADSL CODEC, and verify by full simulation that it matches its original design specifications. As a result, we argue that synthesis has significant potential in both custom and analog IP reuse scenarios.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings - Design Automation Conference |
| State | Published - 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | DAC 2000: 37th Design Automation Conference - Los Angeles, CA, USA Duration: Jun 5 2000 → Jun 9 2000 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Control and Systems Engineering