[hemmerling] Electronic Design Automation ( EDA ) 5/5 - Design for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits ( ASIC ) - A simple Frequency Divider

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• Electronic Design Automation ( EDA ) 1/5 - Installation Engineering.
• Electronic Design Automation ( EDA ) 2/5 - Schematics Capture, Schematics Simulation and PCB Design.
• Electronic Design Automation ( EDA ) 3/5 - Design for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits ( ASIC ) - Design of digital Chips.
• Electronic Design Automation ( EDA ) 4/5 - Design for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits ( ASIC ) - Design of analog Chips.

• Specification:
  • Purpose: Frequency divider.
  • Application: Cell of a frequency divider chain.
    • Technology.
      • Circuit technology: CMOS integrated circuit. 0.8 µm CMOS Process CXQ ( CX08AI ) with poly capacitor module and high resistive poly module ( 13 mask layers ), by X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG.
        • Software design technology:
          • LTSpice, using special “CXQ” library files.
          • Tanner L-Edit 7.15, using the CMOS technology file “CXQ_DIG.TB”
  • Power source VDD: 1.2 Volts.
  • Input V(in): 500 KHz digital signal, low = 0 Volts, high = 1.2 Volts ( Pulses with 0.1 µs delay, 10 ns rise, 10 ns fall, 1 µs pulse width ).
  • Process: Frequency division by 2.
  • Output V(out): 250 KHz digital signal, low = 0 Volts, high = 1.2 Volts.
• Proceeding:
  1. Literature and Internet research into frequency dividers.
  2. Design of a frequency divider by 2, on CMOS cell technology level.
  3. Circuit schematics design and simulation with LTSpice.
  4. Physical design of the CMOS integrated circuit with Tanner L-EDIT.
  5. Simulation of a schematics model imported from Tanner L-EDIT back to LTSpice.

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