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  • ItemOpen Access
    Analysis of various DFT techniques in the ASIC designs
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2013) Rathod, Gayatri Manohar; Bhatt, Amit
    With the increasing demand of mobile communication industry and highly progressive VLSI technology, muti-million gates silicon chips are in the market. And to have fault free, reliable chips, extended facility of testable circuit has to be added into the original design. The design technique which includes the testability logic into the design at the logical synthesis level is known as Design for Test abbreviated as DFT [1]. To achieve better fault coverage, I have chosen full scan chain insertion technique for OR1200 design. OR1200 is a 32-bit microprocessor with 5-stage pipeline [12]. Its RTL code is taken from opencores.org and Cadence RTL Compiler version 11.1 is used for logic synthesis. For testing and verification, Encounter Test Version 11.1 and NCVerilog simulator is used. To improve the testability of the design, Deterministic fault analysis and Random Resistant Fault Analysis techniques are also added to the design. Effects of all hardware DFT techniques are analysed in terms of area, dynamic power dissipation and gate count. Main low power technique i.e. clock gating is also inserted along with DFT to achieve better performance in terms of power dissipation. DFT causes 25% of increase in die area and 12% of increase in dynamic power. This is acceptable as we will get OR1200 design with 99.67% fault coverage area.
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    Design & layout of a low voltage folding & interpolation ADC for high speed applications
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2012) Tiwari, Sandeep Kumar; Sen, Subhajit
    Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) and Digital to Analog Converters (DAC) plays a vital role in mixed analog signalling, communication and digital signal processing world. Now a day, the demand for designing of high speed, low power and low voltage ADCs are increasing tremendously in high speed data processing applications. In the folding and interpolation ADCs folding amplifiers have the serious bandwidth limitation problem because of larger parasitic capacitance and resistance at the output node. In this thesis work a low voltage and high speed folding and interpolation ADC is implemented using current steering CMOS folding amplifier followed by transresistance amplifier (TRA) in UMC 180nm CMOS technology. The current steering folding amplifier significantly reduces power as well as number of tail current sources compared to the conventional folding amplifier. Transresistance amplifier, which is connected at the output of folding amplifier, avoids the analog bandwidth limitation problem. MSB and LSB bits are generated simultaneously at the output therefore sample and hold circuit is not required in this architecture. This proposed circuit works at 1.8V power supply and 85 MSamples/S and consumes 70mW power. Simulation and Layout of Folding and Interpolation ADC were done using UMC CMOS 180nm technology in the Cadence Analog Design Environment
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    Radiation analysis of microstrip active (amplifier) and passive (antenna) structures
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2010) Dhoot, Vivek; Gupta, Sanjeev
    Analysis of radiation from a microstrip amplifier and a newly proposed microstrip antenna is presented. Microstrip amplifier is analyzed replacing the MMIC structure by an equivalent S2P model and remaining portion being constructed with the original dimensions. A printed monopole antenna using multifractal technique is proposed. This antenna has multiband characteristics covering various wireless applications including WLAN 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz applications
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    High-performance low-voltage current mirror design
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2010) Gandhi, Nikunj; Parikh, Chetan D.
    Design of high precision analog circuits requires accounting for the mismatch between nominally identical transistors. In this work, errors affecting CMOS current mirrors due to mismatch between identical transistors are discussed, and circuit techniques to overcome these errors are studied. The dynamic current mirror (DCM) is one of the solutions to overcome mismatch problems. Dynamic current mirrors contain analog and digital components together so that errors due to process variations, temperature and ageing effect can be cancelled. Various circuit techniques such as op-amp based DCM, reduced transconductance based DCM, and cascode based DCM have been used to improve the performance of current mirrors. This thesis proposes a novel circuit for a low-voltage high-performance dynamic current mirror design. The thesis investigates the performance of analog switches at low voltages, and suggests an improved bootstrap switch; errors due to clock feed through and charge injection in the switch are analysed. A new low charge injection, voltage-boosted analog switch is recommended in the dynamic current mirror design. A bulk-driven dynamic current mirror circuit is proposed, and found to be an effective solution at low voltage. The proposed circuit is designed optimally in a 0.18µm CMOS process, in the Cadence Spectre environment. A current copying accuracy of ±0.14% is achieved under worst case conditions.
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    High speed sample and hold circuit design
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2010) Dwivedi, Varun Kumar; Parikh, Chetan D.
    Sampling of the time-varying input signal is the first step in any type of Analog to Digital (A/D) conversion. For Low Power and high-speed A/D converter, a high-performance Sample and Hold (S/H) circuit is needed as its front-end component. In this thesis, the high speed sample and hold circuit has been designed, requiring low power as a front end block of pipeline analog to digital converter. In this work, architectures of sample and hold circuit are studied and issues which limit the performance of sample and hold circuits are discussed. A fully differential S/H circuit using bottom plate sampling is proposed. The circuit has been designed in order to meet the specification. Amplifiers are studied and folded-cascode amplifier is chosen as an optimum architecture for switch capacitor based sample and hold circuit. The proposed circuit is designed optimally in a 180 nm CMOS process, in the Cadence Spectre environment. The speed and power achieved are 125 MSPS, 6.8mW respectively.
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    FPGA implementation of direct sequence spread spectrum techniques
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2008) Choudhary, Vivek Kumar; Dubey, Rahul
    This work presents the performance, noise analysis and FPGA implementation of Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum technique. Performance of signal increases as increasing parity bits in Hamming code algorithm. Increasing parity noise goes reduce therefore received signal close to its original value, but adding parity band-width requirement also increases. This work is bases on the IS-95 standard for CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) Digital Cellular.