In deep submicrometer integrated circuit design, there is a growing need to quickly and accurately characterize the timing of large circuit blocks. Accurate timing characterization requires making available as much timing information as possible at each step of the design process. Conventional fast characterization methods typically employ topological analysis, which can be inaccurate because o...

This paper uses a CAD methodology proposed by the authors to design a low-power 2ndorder ΣΔM. This modulator has been fabricated in a 0.7μm CMOS technology to be used as the front-end of an energy metering mixed-signal ASIC and features 16.4bit at a digital output rate of 9.6kHz with a power consumption of 1.71mW. It yields a value of the figure which is the smallest reported to now, thus demon...

Pott, A. and M. Shriklande, t-Designs with few intersection numbers, Discrete Mathematics 90 (1991) 215-217. We give a method to obtain new i-designs from t-designs with j distinct intersection numbers if i + j 1 does not exceed t.

The theory of latency insensitive design is presented as the foundation of a new correct by construction methodology to design complex systems by assembling Intellectual Property components. Latency insensitive designs are synchronous distributed systems and are realized by composing functional modules that exchange data on communication channels according to an appropriate protocol. The protoc...

a high accurate and low-voltage analog cmos current divider which operates with a single power supply voltage is designed in 0.18µm cmos standard technology. the proposed divider uses a differential amplifier and transistor in triode region in order to perform the division. the proposed divider is modeled with neural network while tlbo algorithm is used to optimize it. the proposed optimization...

SiSMA (Simulator for Statistical Mismatch Analysis) is a CAD tool for the statistical analysis of analog CMOS integrated circuits affected by technological tolerance effects including device mismatch.

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A perpendicular array PA,(t, k, u) is a n(y) by k array A of u distinct symbols, which satisfies: (i) every row of A contains k distinct symbols, (ii) for any t columns, and for any t distinct symbols, there are precisely 2 rows with the given symbols in the given columns. Such a structure may also be described as a A-uniform, t-homogeneous set of injective mappings from a k-set into a u-set. A...