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Design
and Integration of Analog Building Blocks for High Energy Experiments in Deep
Submicron Integrated Circuits--Manhattan
Routing, Inc., 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 501A, New York, NY
10038-4810; 212-402-7885
Mr.
Tor Ekenberg, Principal Investigator, ekenberg@mri.nyc.com
Mr.
Tor Ekenberg, Business Official, ekenberg@mri.nyc.com
DOE
Grant No. DE-FG02-01ER83205
Amount:
$96,681
Deep-Submicron
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (DSM CMOS) process technology is quickly
becoming the only technology available for the design and fabrication of
specialized analog and mixed analog/digital circuits, required by current and
future high energy physics (HEP) experiments. However, DSM CMOS technology
presents challenges related to the difficulty in designing high-performance
building blocks for the analog parts of the system, as well as integration
issues related to placing large amounts of digital circuitry on the same
substrate as the sensitive analog circuits.
This project will demonstrate the placement of a previously-designed set
of high-performance analog circuits on the same integrated circuit (IC) as a
significant amount of digital circuitry. The feasibility of achieving desired
performance from both the circuits as independent objects, and as they function
as a part of a “real” system, will be shown.
In Phase I, several analog circuit elements will be redesigned for a 0.25mm
process, then fabricated and tested to ensure proper functionality and
performance as stand-alone projects. These analog circuits will then be
integrated with a large amount of digital circuitry on the same IC, and the
performance of the analog circuitry in-situ will be evaluated.
Commercial
Applications And Other Benefits as
described by awardee: The analog circuits chosen have potential use in several
current and future HEP experiments. Their functionality should also be general
enough to find potential applications in the medical imaging industry.