Despite the spectacular breakthroughs of the semiconductor
industry, the ability to design integrated circuits under stringent
time-to-market requirements is lagging behind integration capacity,
so far keeping pace with still valid Moorea (TM)s Law. The
resulting gap is threatening with slowing down such a phenomenal
growth. The design community believes that it is only by means of
powerful CAD tools, design methodologies and even a design paradigm
shift, that this design gap can be bridged. In this sense,
reuse-based design is seen as a promising solution, and concepts
such as IP Block, Virtual Component, and Design Reuse have become
commonplace thanks to the significant advances in the digital
arena. Unfortunately, the very nature of analog and mixed-signal
(AMS) design a "more subtle, hierarchically loose, and
handicraft-demandinga" has hindered a similar level of consensus
and development.
Aiming at the core of the problem, Reuse Based Methodologies and
Tools in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
presents a framework for the reuse-based design of AMS circuits.
The framework is founded on three key elements: (1) a CAD-supported
hierarchical design flow that facilitates the incorporation of AMS
reusable blocks, reduces the overall design time, and expedites the
management of increasing AMS design complexity; (2) a complete,
clear definition of the AMS reusable block, structured into three
separate facets or views: the behavioral, structural, and layout
facets, the first two for top-down electrical synthesis and
bottom-up verification, the latter used during bottom-up physical
synthesis; (3) the design for reusability set of tools, methods,
andguidelines that, relying on intensive parameterization as well
as on design knowledge capture and encapsulation, allows to produce
fully reusable AMS blocks.
Reuse Based Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog and
Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits features a very detailed,
tutorial, and in-depth coverage of all issues and must-have
properties of reusable AMS blocks, as well as a thorough
description of the methods and tools necessary to implement them.
For the first time, this has been done hierarchically, covering one
by one the different stages of the design flow, allowing us to
examine how the reusable block yields its benefits, both in design
time and correct performance.
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