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

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

Related pages:

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.

Concept for the Development of a simple ASIC

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.

Frequency Dividers, Frequency Division ( as of 2006-01-01 )

Online Databases and Ressources

Literature

Eric Vittoz, Bernard Gerber, Fritz Leuenberger: “Silicon-Gate CMOS Frequency Divider for the Electronic Wrist Watch”, published in:
- A. Chandrakasan, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Robert W. Brodersen: "Low-Power CMOS Design".
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. SC-7, No. 2, April 1972
Ulrich Tietze, Christoph Schenk:
- Ulrich Tietze, Christoph Schenk "Halbleiter-Schaltungstechnik" - In my 7.edition, chapter 10: “Schaltwerke ( Sequentielle Logik )”.
- Ulrich Tietze, Christoph Schenk "Electronic Circuits".

IEEE Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Publications

U. Singh and M.M. Green: "High-frequency CML clock dividers in 0.13-/spl mu/m CMOS operating up to 38 GHz", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, ISSN: 0018-9200 ( Library TIB Hannover: Place “L elt Z 795”, signature “ZB 814” ).
J.F. Jensen, M. Hafizi, W.E. Stanchina, R.A. Metzger, D.B. Rensch: “39.5-GHz static frequency divider implemented in AlInAs/GaInAs HBTtechnology”, Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium 1992. ISBN: 0-7803-0773-9 ( Library TIB Hannover: Signatur “RO 123(14)” ).
J.-O. Plouchart, J. Kim, H. Recoules, N. Zamdmer, Y. Tan, M. Sherony, A. Ray, and L. Wagner: “A 33 GHZ 2:1 Static Frequency Divider in 0.12-µ SOI CMOS Operable at 2.7mW,”. Proceedings of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, Digest of Technical Papers, June 2003, pp. 329-332. ( 1, 2, 3, 4, Library TIB Hannover: Signature “RN 9723 (2003)” ).
H.-D. Wohlmuth, D. Kehrer, and W. Simburger: “A High Sensitivity Static 2:1 Frequency Divider Up to 19 GHz in 120 nm CMOS” ( Library TIB Hannover: Signature “RN 9723 (2002)” ).

Other related CMOS Design Literature

Payam Heydari: “Design of Ultra High-Speed Low-Voltage CMOS CML buffers and Latches” ( PDF ).
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Arbeitsgruppe Halbleiterbauelemente - Publikationen von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Martin Rein.
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
- Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg "Test und testfreundlicher Entwurf digitaler Schaltungen und Systeme".
- Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg "Test und testfreundlicher Entwurf digitaler Schaltungen und Systeme, Teil 2" ( PDF ) > “CMOS-2-NAND in statischer und dynamischer Schaltungstechnik”.

40xx Data Sheet

Philips HEF4000 Series.
Philips 4013 D-Type Flip-Flops; Positive-Edge Trigger.
Philips 4007 Complementary Pairs and Inverters.

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