Development of CAD Tools for Power Estimation in Continuous-Time and Switched-Capacitor Analog Circuits

Abstract

The goal of this research contract was the development of CAD tools to compute statistical information (in particular, mean and variance) about the power dissipated in a continuous-time or switched-capacitor circuit, when statistical information about the input signals to the circuit is given. This approach mirrors the one generally used to estimate power dissipation in digital CMOS circuits. Two power estimation CAD programs were developed: one for continuous-time analog circuits, the other for switched-capacitor circuits. Those tools were integrated into an existing commercial CAD environment, namely CADENCE's Design Framework II.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA375770

Entities

People

  • Giorgio Casinovi

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Capacitors
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Differential Equations
  • Energy Conservation
  • Estimators
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Network Science
  • Operational Amplifiers
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Statistical inference.