Fully Programmatic Automated Design Procedure of Comparators for Analog-to-Digital Converters

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2025

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Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering

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en

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5

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IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Volume 44, issue 10, pp. 4043-4047

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This article proposes a system-aware, fully programmatic and automated, process agnostic design methodology, which utilizes system-level simulations with the layout parasitics of the circuit under optimization included. The methodology is demonstrated with a design procedure for a comparator from specification to layout implementation in three analog-to-digital converter design examples with different specifications and applications without designer interaction. The procedure is shown to effectively converge toward performance achieved with ideal comparator in post-layout across two different semiconductor processes. While the methodology was demonstrated for design of comparators, the proposed system-aware methodology is generally applicable to any analog circuit, drastically reducing design time while providing a silicon ready circuit implementation purpose designed to the higher level system without human-in-the-loop.

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Berkeley Analog Generator, TheSyDeKick, design automation, procedural design, system-aware sizing

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10.1109/TCAD.2025.3560224

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Lahtinen, V, Porrasmaa, S, Heikkinen, A, Tenhunen, M, Ryynanen, J & Kosunen, M 2025, 'Fully Programmatic Automated Design Procedure of Comparators for Analog-to-Digital Converters', IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 4043-4047. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2025.3560224

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