Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05) Evaluation of Capacitor Ratios in Automated Accurate Common-Centroid Capacitor Arrays San Jose, California March 21-March 23 ISBN: 0-7695-2301-3
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISQED.2005.54
In this paper, design and measurement results of a test chip that intends to evaluate differences between layout techniques for rectangular unit-capacitor arrays are introduced. Precision capacitor ratios are compared using a switched-capacitor biquad and a pseudo-floating gate configuration. The test chip is used to evaluate the effectiveness of an automatic common-centroid capacitor array generation tool with arbitrary capacitor ratios. Results indicate significant improvements in ratio accuracy, which have a direct impact on a wide range of applications such as filters for wireless communications, hard drives, and high precision baseband processing.
Citation:
DiaaEldin Khalil, Mohamed Dessouky, Vincent Bourguet, Marie-Minerve Louerat, Andreia Cathelin, Hani Ragai, "Evaluation of Capacitor Ratios in Automated Accurate Common-Centroid Capacitor Arrays," isqed, pp.143-147, Sixth International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||