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Library of structural analog cell macromodels for design of continuous-time reconfigurable ΔΣ modulators

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Abstract

The design of reconfigurable ΔΣ modulators requires cumbersome circuit-level simulations. Besides the challenges inherent to high-performance analog-to-digital converter (ADC) design, the gap between system-level specification and circuit-level implementation makes the design even more difficult and inefficient. Circuit macromodels are an efficient way of tackling these problems by speeding up simulation and offering insight into circuit design. This paper presents a library of structural macromodels customized for cells used in ΔΣ modulator design. We present original structural macromodels for two operational amplifier (Opamp) and one operational transconductor amplifier (OTA) circuits. These cells are used to implement the loop filter in continuous-time ΔΣ modulators. The proposed library helps the designer capture circuit-level constrains and tradeoffs before doing circuit implementation. It also makes top-down design of analog circuits more efficient by meaningful abstracting circuitlevel parameters to a higher design level.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISCAS 2006
Subtitle of host publication2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Proceedings
Pages1764-1767
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2006
EventISCAS 2006: 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - Kos, Greece
Duration: May 21 2006May 24 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Conference

ConferenceISCAS 2006: 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityKos
Period05/21/0605/24/06

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