analogue integrated circuits

Post Silicon Validation of Analog/Mixed Signal/RF Circuits and Systems: Recent Advances

Technology scaling along with unprecedented levels of device integration has led to increasing numbers of analog/mixed-signal/RF design bugs escaping into silicon. Such bugs are manifested under specific system-on-chip (SoC) operating conditions and …

Targeting Hardware Trojans in Mixed-Signal Circuits for Security

The proliferation of third-party silicon manufacturing has increased the vulnerability of integrated circuits to malicious insertion of hardware for the purpose of leaking secret information or even rendering the circuits useless while deployed in …

Adaptive Testing of Analog/RF Circuits Using Hardware Extracted FSM Models

The test generation problem for analog/RF circuits has been largely intractable due to the fact that repetitive circuit simulation for test stimulus optimization is extremely time-consuming. As a consequence, it is difficult, if not impossible, to …

TRAP: Test Generation Driven Classification of Analog/RF ICs Using Adaptive Probabilistic Clustering Algorithm

In production testing of analog/RF ICs, application of standard specification-based tests for IC classification is not always an attractive option due to the high costs and test times involved. In this paper, a new test generation algorithm for IC …

Atomic Model Learning: A Machine Learning Paradigm for Post Silicon Debug of RF/Analog Circuits

As RF design scales to the 28nm technology node and beyond, pre-silicon simulation and verification of complex mixed-signal/RF SoCs is becoming intractable due to the difficulties associated with simulating diverse electrical effects and design bugs. …