Nanoscale Digital-Based Analog Processing | P. Leite Correia | PitchD 12

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Nanoscale Digital-Based Analog Processing: How to Design Analog Building Blocks Using Only Digital Gates

Mr. Pedro Leite Correia
-Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Politecnico di Torino
-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

While digital Integrated Circuits (IC) have been taking the advantage of CMOS technology scaling in terms of speed, power consumption, and cost, the techniques running behind the analog signal processing are still lagging behind. In other words, it is clear that overtime there have been significant improvements (and it is expected to) in digital circuits performance when compared with analog building blocks. To mitigate this, there has been an increasing trend in finding alternative IC design strategies to implement analog functions exploiting digital-in-concept design methodologies. In addition to the advantage of using the well-established fully-automated EDA digital tools, the idea of re-thinking analog functions in digital terms would make the Analog IC blocks also suitable to avail energy efficiency and the feature-size shrinking of new technologies. In this context, this presentation will cover the current status of the state-of-art digital-based analog building blocks results including circuits such as OTA, comparators and converters, as well as their impact over the emerging applications and technologies. Put differently, are you a digital guy ? Would you like to know how to design OpAmp (analog stuff) only using logical gates ? This talk is for you.