The key points in the design methodology are:
This methodology provides two principal advantages-- a high probability for first silicon which meets all specifications and fast design times. Once the tools have been developed for a certain class of circuits and the first design has been done, the redesign for a different set of specifications is vastly accelerated. Design examples have already been manufactured and the results have been published. In addition to the current source interpolative D/A Converter and Sigma-Delta A/D design examples, a Display Driver System example was completed in 1996. The chip was tested and specifications were met thus validating once more our methodology. The latter system was the most complex among the ones considered so far. Hence, the design of complex mixed-signal systems was illustrated and we provided a rigorous approach together with the behavioral and noise simulation tools that support it.