Along the path from specification to silicon, the design of analog/mixed-signal chips comprises a variety of challenges. They are of technological, methodological, organizational, communicational, and ...

I’ve spent most of my career designing the analog front ends for microcontroller-based systems. That was the branch of electronics I took when 32 years ago I thought writing the control software for a ...

Analog and mixed-signal design are often regarded as representing significant bottlenecks in system-on-chip (SoC) design. A manually intensive process that has proven difficult to automate, the belief ...

You may have heard statements like, “Everything will be digital, and even signal processing is now performed in digital.” Or, “modern semiconductor designs will minimize analog content because you ...

Anyone involved in IC product sign-off that includes a mixed signal design portion knows that developing robust tests for these intricate designs has historically been a significant bottleneck, no ...

Considerations for dividing analog and digital blocks. Decoupling techniques. Breaking down the board layers. How best to deal with grounding. Similar to building a house, it’s essential to create a ...

In modern mixed-signal electronic design, bridging the gap between digital computational cores and continuous analog environments remains a foundational requirement. Microcontrollers, ...