Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: 301
TOPIC AREA:  ANALOG AND CIRCUIT
(of special interest to designers)

   SESSION 51
  Analog Design and Design Assistance
  Chair: Peng Li - Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX
  Organizers: Helmut Graeb, Rob A. Rutenbar

  This session presents a mix of design case studies, design automation and design assistance techniques for several difficult mixed-signal circuits and systems. The first paper presents a new low-power ADC that is the winner of the 2006 DAC-ISSCC student design contest. The second paper deals with application of optimization in LNA design, while the third paper presents a non-optimization design migration aid applied to a bias cell and a crystal oscillator. The fourth paper presents how to maintain model consistency during the design of a multi-mode multi-band transceiver front-end.

  51.1   A 10.6mW/0.8pJ Power-Scalable 1GS/s 4b ADC in 0.18um CMOS with 5.8GHz ERBW
  Speaker(s): Pierluigi Nuzzo - Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  Author(s): Pierluigi Nuzzo - Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Geert Van der Plas - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Fernando De Bernardinis - Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Liesbet Van der Perre - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Bert Gyselinckx - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Pierangelo Terreni - Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  51.2  SoC-LNA: Synthesis and Optimization for Fully Integrated Narrow-Band CMOS Low Noise Amplifiers
  Speaker(s): Arthur Nieuwoudt - Rice Univ., Houston, TX
  Author(s): Arthur Nieuwoudt - Rice Univ., Houston, TX
Tamer Ragheb - Rice Univ., Houston, TX
Yehia Massoud - Rice Univ., Houston, TX
  51.3s  Chameleon ART: A Non-Optimization Based Analog Design Migration Framework
  Speaker(s): Sherif Hammouda - Mentor Graphics Corp., Cairo, Egypt
  Author(s): Sherif Hammouda - Mentor Graphics Corp., Cairo, Egypt
Hazem Said - Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Dessouky - Mentor Graphics Corp., Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Tawfik - Mentor Graphics Corp., Cairo, Egypt
Quang Nguyen - ON Semiconductor France SAS, Toulouse, France
Wael Badawy - Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Hazem Abbas - Mentor Graphics Corp., Cairo, Egypt
Hussein Shahein - Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt
  51.4s  Ensuring Consistency During Front-End Design Using an Object-Oriented Interfacing Tool Called NETLISP
  Speaker(s): Gerd Vandersteen - Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  Author(s): Michael Goffioul - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Vandersteen - Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Joris Van Driessche - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Björn Debaillie - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Boris Come - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium