TY - GEN
T1 - Tomorrow's analog
T2 - Just dead or just different?
AU - Gielen, Georges
AU - Rutenbar, Rob
AU - Borkar, S.
AU - Brodersen, R.
AU - Chern, J. H.
AU - Naviasky, E.
AU - Saias, D.
AU - Sodini, C.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - This panel discusses the following topics. With the ongoing trend towards more and more digitization in applications ranging from multimedia to telecommunications, there is a big debate about whether there will remain a need for analog circuits in scaled technologies. Analog circuits do not seem to take advantage of nanometer CMOS; rather they suffer from it. So if the question is asked "Will analog scale?", you get conflicting opinions. One camp argues for an almost-all-digital future: analog/RF content should be limited, because it's difficult, expensive, risky, and can be done with DSP. The opposing camp counters that some critical circuits simply do not want (or need) to scale, and analog is only "risky" when you let digital designers do it. So, what is the future role of analog circuits in scaled CMOS, and can analog EDA tools help in this .
AB - This panel discusses the following topics. With the ongoing trend towards more and more digitization in applications ranging from multimedia to telecommunications, there is a big debate about whether there will remain a need for analog circuits in scaled technologies. Analog circuits do not seem to take advantage of nanometer CMOS; rather they suffer from it. So if the question is asked "Will analog scale?", you get conflicting opinions. One camp argues for an almost-all-digital future: analog/RF content should be limited, because it's difficult, expensive, risky, and can be done with DSP. The opposing camp counters that some critical circuits simply do not want (or need) to scale, and analog is only "risky" when you let digital designers do it. So, what is the future role of analog circuits in scaled CMOS, and can analog EDA tools help in this .
KW - Analog CAD tools
KW - Analog design
KW - Analog design methodologies
KW - Mixed-signal design
KW - RF design
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U2 - 10.1145/1146909.1147089
DO - 10.1145/1146909.1147089
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34547182531
SN - 1595933816
SN - 1595933816
SN - 9781595933812
T3 - Proceedings - Design Automation Conference
SP - 709
EP - 710
BT - 2006 43rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC'06
ER -