Design-Reuse

Mixed-signal design flow enables RF CMOS chip

Spirea AB is a Swedish fabless semiconductor company developing highly integrated low-power, low-cost radio solutions for the Wireless LAN and PAN markets. This article describes how we assembled a ...
Electronic Design

How to Design a Chip for Under $1,000 (Part 1): Book Recommendations

In the first of a multi-part series on how to design a custom chip for under $1,000, our Analog Editor gets you started with a Magnificent 7 list of textbooks. TinyTapeout offers a course that ...
Electronic Design

Analog/Mixed-Signal Foundries Address Technology Convergence

With a new breed of analog/mixed-signal foundries arriving on the scene, fabless and fab-lite companies can create a huge variety of high-yielding designs. As a result, these fabless and fab-lite ...
Phys.org

Infineon Developed Innovative Mixed-Signal Circuits That Redefine Power Limits in Standard CMOS

At the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference 2005 in San Francisco (February 6 – 10, 2005) Infineon Technologies AG held several technical lectures presenting trend-setting results from ...
EDN

An introduction to analog circuit design* Part 1: Transistors and Elementary Circuits

Modern circuit design is a “mixed signal” endeavor thanks to the availability of sophisticated process technologies that make available bipolar and CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor), ...
Design-Reuse

Standard CMOS Ultrawideband Single-Chip Solutions

Ultrawideband technology has been selected to serve as the foundation for evolutionary extensions to several very successful protocols. However, the promise of ubiquitous, high-bandwidth ...