First Advisor

John M. Acken

Term of Graduation

Fall 2020

Date of Publication

9-2-2020

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Language

English

Subjects

Active electric filters, Systems on a chip

DOI

10.15760/etd.7477

Physical Description

1 online resource (x, 103 pages)

Abstract

The manufacturing yield, overkill, and defect level limit the feasibility of analog circuits in SoCs. The conventional method of handling process and environmental variation is to assign a design margin such that the design meets specifications at several processes and environmental corners. However, checking only extreme corners limits performance in comparison to the more rigorous statistical approach of the computing manufacturing and quality figure of merit. The statistical approach requires transistor-level simulation of hundreds or even thousands of samples, not just a few corners, and thus is very time consuming.

This research offers a method for reducing the time required for the statistical approach by characterizing each of the many samples of building blocks once at the transistor level. The building blocks are scalable such that the statistics are preserved when a building block is adjusted to the requirement of a higher-level design. Many design scenarios can be rapidly explored by assembling and scaling the building block samples without SPICE simulation. This study employs a continuous time low-pass filter design example to extract the requirements of the building block approach. The requirements include a method to assemble building blocks (biquad element for the example) into a filter design while preserving the statistics that would have been extracted by simulation of the entire filter at the transistor level. The assembly method for both linear and nonlinear response is proposed.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34453

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