A/D and D/A Design
 Software
for A/D and D/A Design
1. Circuit Sage's calculation of optimal
phase margin (pdf) for fastest
settling.
2. Circuit
Sage's optvdsatfold.mcd (and pdf), a
Mathcad routine to calculated the optimal load VDSsat for a folded
cascode amplifier.
3. MIDAS,
a Stanford tool for simulating SD modulators. Berkeley examples.
4. Elanix's SystemView,
RF/DSP system simulation. Free 1 month evaluation version.
$995. Very nice tool. Recommended.
5. SoftAnalytics' DASE,
a system simulation tool. (similar to simulink) $100.
6. Simulink,
DSP and Communications design. Takai. Free emulators: scilab
and octave.
7. VisSim
integrates with Mathcad and MATLAB.
8. Power
Design, a tool to design operational amplifiers.
9. hspc,
from Mike Perrott at MIT, software for manipulating data between
hspice, MATLAB, and C++.
10. Richard Schreier's MATLAB
toolbox for
Sigma Delta A/D design.
 Op-Amp,
D/A and A/D Design Articles
1. Pipelined
A/D article, Vaz et. al.
2. Switched-capacitor
integrator designer.
3. Berkeley op-amp class projects:
a. Kelvin
Khoo and Danelle Au.
b. class
projects including many on A/Ds.
4. Some opamp
design class notes at Georgia Tech.
5. Maxim A/D
and D/A application notes.
6. TI: Understanding
data converters article.
7. National current
feedback application note, op-amp
circuit collection. Application note A: Integrated
op-amp tutorial.
8. 8-bit
R-2R D/A converter by Brian Bowen.
9. 8-bit
200MHz D/A converter by Sam Blackman at Berkeley.
10. Mansour Keramat's MATLAB A/D
toolbox and description.,
some A/D
papers referenced on his website.
11. NEC's paper
search engine. Very useful!
12. CMOS A/D
converters by Jacob Wikman,
13. A Mathcad routine to analyze a 2nd-order
sigma delta modulator.
14. Andy Abo's qualifying exam on low-voltage
switched-capacitor circuits. Check out his thesis too.
15. Arnold
Feldman's Ph.D. Thesis:
includes a good comparison of different operational amplifier
architectures.
16.
Low-Power
Decimation Filter Design for Multi-Standard Transceiver Applications:
A good thesis on decimation filter design.
17. Decimation
Filter Publications:
A good discussion of decimation filter design with binary
constrained coefficients.
18. Automated
DAC design:
Robert Neff did his thesis on the automated design of current source
DACs.
19. A/D usage
notes from Linear.
20. Stanford notes on analog
layout design.
21. Grounding
techniques for analog circuits.
22. MIT's
Microelectronic Devices and Circuits,
Communication Circuits, Class.
 Books
on A/D and D/A Converters
1. CMOS Mixed Signal Circuit Design, R. Baker. 0471227544, $70. and
CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation. 0780334167
2. Continuous-Time Sigma Delta Modulation for A/D Conversion, Breems, 0792374924, $110, Kluwer
3. Oversampling
A/D Converters, (on my shelf) Candy and Temes.
4. Continuous-Time
Delta-Sigma Modulators, by Cherry and Snelgrove, $132, 0792386256. Kluwer
5. Design of Multi-bit Delta-Sigma A/D Converters, Geerts, $105, Kluwer, 1402070780
6. Systematic Design for Optimization of Pipelined ADCs, Goes, $105, 0792372913, Kluwer
7. CMOS Data Converters for Communications, Gustavsson, $135, 079237780X, Kluwer
8. Integrated Converters, Jespers, Oxford, 0198564465, with MATLAB toolbox.
9. Modular CMOS A/D Converters, Lin, $110, 1402073801
10. Top-Down Design of High-Performance Sigma-Delta Modulators, Medeiro, $151.50,
0792383524, Kluwer
11. High-Speed A/D Converters, Moscovici, $125, 079237276X, Kluwer
12. Delta-Sigma
Data Converters, Norsworthy, Shrier, and Temes, (on my
shelf) very good.
13. The Design of Low-Voltage Sigma-Delta Modulators by Rabii and
Wooley, $127, Kluwer,
0792383613
14. Principles
of Data Conversion System Design by
Behzad Razavi.
15. Data Converters for Wireless Standards, Shi, $105, 0792376234, Kluwer
16. Integrated A/D and D/A Converters, Van de Plassche, $152, 0792394364, RF A/Ds,
$151.50, 0792399684, High Speed A/Ds and PLLs.$135, 079237956X, Kluwer, High
Speed A/D Converters,
17. Circuit Techniques for A/D
Converters, Waltari, $115, 1402072449, Kluwer
18. Design of Analog-Digital VLSI Circuits, $107, Prentice Hall, 0132036398
Books on
General Analog Design and Layout
1. Hernes, Design Criteria for Low Distortion Op Amps, $105, 1402073569, Kluwer
2. Huijsing, Operational Amplifiers, Theory and Design, $110, 0792372840, Kluwer
3. CMOS, BiCMOS, and Bipolar Operational Amplifiers, de
Langen, $137.50, Kluwer, 079238623X
4. Eschauzier, Frequency Compensation of Operational Amplifiers, $153.50,
0792395654, Kluwer
5. The
Art of Analog Layout, by Alan Hastings.
6. CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Allen, $92, Oxford, 0195116445
7. Analog BiCMOS Design, Daly, $90, CRCPress, 0849302471
8. On-Chip ESD Protection for
Integrated Circuits, Wang, $195, 0306476185, Kluwer
9. Trade-offs in Analog Circuit Design, $325!, Toumazou et
al, 0306476738, Kluwer.
10. Analog Circuit Design, Michelle Steyaert et al, $135,
1402072163, Kluwer.
11. Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Gray &
Meyer, $115, 0471321680, Wiley
12. CMOS Mixed-Signal Circuit Design, Baker, $73, 0471227544, Wiley.
and his CMOS Layout Book, $100, 0780334167, Wiley
13. Basic ESD and I/O Design, Dabral, $100, 0471253596, Wiley.
14. ESD in Silicon Integrated Circuits, Amerasekera, $135,
0471498718, Wiley.
Analog IC Design Software
1.
Analog Office,
from Applied Wave Research.
2. Cadence, $140k
for Virtuoso,+$15k for layout, +$100k for silicon analysis.
3. Mentor Graphics,
4. Tanner Tools,
5. Xpedion's GoldenGate
6. Agilent's RF
Design Environment.
7. XicTools, IC Layout, DRC, LVS,
and extraction software. $1200.
8. Stabie-Soft, IC Layout,
DRC, LVS software. $3800 (or $1400/yr).
9. Magic, The original
layout editor. Free!
10. LASI,
a free layout editor for windows.
11. WinVLSI, a free
layout editor tool for windows.
12. UMC's chip size estimator.
13.
Comparison of Layout Tools by Kris Gaj.
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