Synthesizable mixed-signal building blocks for open source high speed serial links
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Generally, design and validation of a high speed serial link require lots of engineering effort, since its performance tightly depends on sophisticated analog and mixed-signal (AMS) circuit blocks. While digital blocks use a set of electrical rules for formal equivalence checking to ensure the Boolean functions of circuits, there are no such universal rules for the AMS blocks -- understanding the rules for dedicated circuits separates novice and experienced AMS designers. Besides, while digital designs are synthesized into standard gates and then laid out using an automatic placement and routing (PnR) tool, AMS blocks rely on a transistor-level custom design flow, which requires a significant amount of non-recurring engineering (NRE) cost. An even bigger problem is that AMS blocks are often the bottleneck for full-chip verification, since they usually require more precision than what is needed for the rest of the system, and hence severely affect the turn-around time (TAT) of product developments. This dissertation proposes a synthesizable and portable architecture of the AMS building blocks of an ADC-based serial link along with an automated design platform. The proposed architecture enables the link to be entirely described by a hardware description language (HDL) using a minimal amount of analog precision. This design is intended to be released to the public with all required design collateral so that its users, even those who do not have deep analog backgrounds, can produce their own PHY easily and efficiently. This platform is called the Open-Source PHY.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kim, Sungjin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Horowitz, Mark (Mark Alan) |
| Thesis advisor | Horowitz, Mark (Mark Alan) |
| Thesis advisor | Murmann, Boris |
| Thesis advisor | Raina, Priyanka, (Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering) |
| Degree committee member | Murmann, Boris |
| Degree committee member | Raina, Priyanka, (Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering) |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sung-Jin Kim. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/sm295qx9833 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Sungjin Kim
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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