A Case Study of Synthesis for Industrial-Scale Analog IP: Redesign of the Equalizer/Filter Frontend for an ADSL CODEC (2000)
| Venue: | In Proc. Design Automation Conf |
| Citations: | 5 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Phelps00acase,
author = {Rodney Phelps and Michael J. Krasnicki and Rob A. Rutenbar and L. Richard Carley and James R. Hellums},
title = {A Case Study of Synthesis for Industrial-Scale Analog IP: Redesign of the Equalizer/Filter Frontend for an ADSL CODEC},
booktitle = {In Proc. Design Automation Conf},
year = {2000},
pages = {1--6}
}
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Abstract
A persistent criticism of analog synthesis techniques is that they cannot cope with the complexity of realistic industrial designs, especially system-level designs. We show how recent advances in simulation-based synthesis can be augmented, via appropriate macromodeling, to attack complex analog blocks. To support this claim, we resynthesize from scratch, in several different styles, a complex equalizer/filter block from the frontend of a commercial ADSL CODEC, and verify by full simulation that it matches its original design specifications. As a result, we argue that synthesis has significant potential in both custom and analog IP reuse scenarios.
