Title of Dissertation: ANALOG SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP WITH APPLICATION TO BIOSENSORS. Angela M. Hodge, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation Directed By: Professor, Robert W. Newcomb, Electrical Engineering Department This dissertation facilitates the design and fabrication of analog systems-on-achip (SoCs). In this work an analog SoC is developed with application to organic fluid analysis. The devi...

Architecture and properties of the virtual probes created by the analog modules of the IEEE Std 1149.4 test bus are presented. Capabilities of the bus co-operated with the CIM 97 Multidiatest Measurement System in the area of the analog signal were investigated on the examples of the resistance, capacitance and inductance measurement. Application of the bus, when access to analog nodes of the c...

Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) facilitates the testing of novel power engineering solutions in lab, allowing a flexible environment while keeping high fidelity real hardware. Due to analog/digital intersection PHIL setup, selecting simply continuous or single-rate discrete-time domain fails model such hybrid system accurately. This paper proposes multi-rate modeling approach setup that can e...

Analog design is quite more difficult than digital design. As a consequence, most of the effort in analog design still relies on designer’s experience. New ideas and methodogies are required to make a progress towards automating the analog design. Computational intelligence techniques, such as those based on fuzzy logic, have provided excellent results in those fields traditionally reserved to ...

We have developed a method of simplifying physical design for undergraduates enrolled in analog VLSI design. The analog CMOS course is a VLSI design course with laboratory that includes design, fabrication and testing of analog CMOS circuits. A student's design begins with a simple current mirror and ends with different types of sampling circuits such as switched-capacitor and autozero circuits...

Analog circuits for implementing soft decoding algorithms have been proposed and demonstrated by several researchers [1]. Optimization and verification of analog circuits remain difficult because the effects of non-ideal circuit behavior can be difficult or impossible to analyze. Importance sampling permits evaluation of analog designs using precise physical models in SPICE simulations. SPICE p...

We motivate and describe an analog evolvable hardware design platform named GRACE (i.e. Generative Robust Analog Circuit Exploration). GRACE combines coarse-grained, topological circuit search with intrinsic testing on a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) field programmable device, the Anadigm AN221E04. It is suited for adaptive, fault tolerant system design as well as CAD flow applications.

This paper explores the applicability of Iddq testing to the field of analog circuits. An attempt is made to categorise different analog design styles according to their potential current testability and some representative circuits are analysed. Considerations at a transistor and block level are given as a first step to understand the limitations of extending this technique to more complex des...

To accelerate the design cycle for analog circuits and mixed-signal systems, we have proposed a top-down, constraint-driven design methodology [1]. In this paper we present a design which demonstrates the two principal advantagesthat this methodology provides– a high probability for first silicon which meets all specifications and fast design times. We examine the design of three different 10-b...