ANALOG DESIGN

Experience in analog design :

• ultra low power/low voltage circuits
• voltage references
• voltage regulators
• supervisory ICs
• watchdog
• oscillators
• custom low power CMOS image sensors
• filters with switched capacitors
• high voltage switching parts
• A/D and D/A converters
• current-mode circuits

Design and realization flow

Analog design flow is dependent on the analog system structure, supply voltage, operating voltage, output currents, etc. Basically two different kinds of integration are used in ASICentrum :

	analog ASIC internal structure technology advantages disadvantages full custom design CMOS, BiCMOS universal usage higher NRE longer design time MMA gate arrays CMOS low NRE limited selection of parts values (resistors, capacitors)

Design process, evaluation and following production of analog circuits step by step in ASICentrum :

1. DESIGN SPECIFICATION

• customer's development assignment
• creation of the circuit specification

2. CIRCUIT DESIGN

• technology selection
• testability analysis
• schematic creation (Design Architect)
• verification (Eldo)
• layout design (IC Station)
• post-layout verification (Eldo)
• test program development

3. PROTOTYPING

• type of samples is technology dependent
• samples production
• samples measuring

4. PRODUCTION