Name
Abstract | ||
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One of the main problems when developing analog filters in VLSI is to achieve high accuracy regarding the cutoff frequency. This is mainly due to the difficulty in obtaining accurate time constants. Testing of such filters is also challenging, in the sense that special equipment is required. Small deviations in the resistor or capacitor values may lead to a very high mismatch between the expected and the achieved cutoff frequency. Although switched-capacitor or active-transistor techniques may produce good results, the cost to use such approaches becomes another limiting factor, and only increases the tester needs. In this work, we present the development of an analog FIR filter, which does not use passive components to tune the cutoff frequency or the quality factor. Instead, the filter coefficients and the input signal are represented in a bit stream fashion, and are digitally processed, thus avoiding the use of expensive analog-to- digital converters. The impact of this filter architecture on test cost and possible design-for-test techniques are discussed in this paper. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1109/ETS.2007.6 | European Test Symposium |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
digitally testable capacitance-insensitive mixed-signal,quality factor,active-transistor technique,filter architecture,test cost,accurate time constant,high mismatch,filter coefficient,analog filter,high accuracy,cutoff frequency,testing,vlsi,fir filters,capacitor,limiting factor,capacitance,digital filters,switched capacitor,capacitors,very large scale integration,resistors,time constant,fir filter,q factor,finite impulse response filter,design for test,resistor | Digital filter,Active filter,Computer science,Prototype filter,Control theory,High-pass filter,Electronic engineering,Low-pass filter,m-derived filter,Voltage-controlled filter,Filter design | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1530-1877 | 0-7695-2827-9 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 3 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erik Schuler | 1 | 18 | 4.83 |
| Marcelo Negreiros | 2 | 123 | 16.53 |
| Pascal Nouet | 3 | 31 | 14.07 |
| Luigi Carro | 4 | 1393 | 166.42 |