CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits

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Mixed-Signal Integrated Systems: Limitations and Challenges

CONTENTS

1.1    Integrated circuit design flow

1.2    Design technique issues

1.3    Integrated system perspectives

1.4    Built-in self-test structures

1.5    Concluding remarks

1.6    To probe further

The objective of designing a complete system on a single chip has resulted in the complexity increase of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), application-specific standard parts (ASSPs), and very-large scale integrated circuits. The system on a chip (SoC), as shown in Figure 1.1, generally possesses complex signal paths through both analog devices and digital components (nonvolatile memory (NVM), random access memory (RAM), and digital signal processor (DSP)).

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