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Portable Analog and Mixed Signal Designs

Analog and Mixed Signal Designs Technology Platforms for Portable Consumer Applications

Vision
Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) Designs is one of the key applied research topics in the IC Design industry. The program covers IC Design techniques and technologies used in various mass electronic products, spanning consumer, computing, communication, biomedical and electrical applications.

AMS Design Technology Platforms Structure

Methodology and Solutions
ASTRI's AMS Designs Technology Platform is targeted to address applications and marketing trends that generally require lower power, higher processing speed and higher communication speed. The Team is exploring various methodologies to manage the IC's power, time skew, and design for high-speed data conversions.

AMS Design Technology Platforms for Portable Consumer IC Applications

Application Example for AMS Design Technology Platforms

Methodology and Solutions
These AMS building blocks will serve as the foundation for the design of stand-alone commercial product families or will be used in embedded applications for the building of complex SoCs for Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) with substantial mixed signal capabilities.

Applications
The AMS IC Design Platform would jump-start the regional IC Design industry by offering ready-to-deploy products, shortening their product development life cycle, and improving the overall cost and reliability of the products.

The current projects of the Team are expected to fill up the critical gaps towards an established AMS IC Design Library, and priority is given to customized projects on power management commercial products IPs, DC-DC converter IP for single chip battery chargers, and other portable consumer products. The IP would facilitate manufactuers to develop cost-effective and reliable integrated circuits for building products such as handsets, digital cameras, high-speed battery chargers and cameras.

AMS Library	IP Deliverables / Functions	Target Applications and Customers
Power Management (PM)	Low Drop Out Regulators (LDOs) Charge Pumps DC-DC Converters PWM Controllers Battery Protection Circuits…	Cell Phones LCD Bias Battery Chargers
Timing Management(TM)	Oscillators Voltage Controlled Oscillators Programmable Phase Lock Loop Programmable Frequency Synthesizers Programmable Delay Lock Loop Skew Control Units…	Camera Sensors Controllers
Data Management and Interface (DMI)	Universal IO Analog to Digital Converters Digital to Analog Converters High-speed Serilers and Deserilers or Clock Recovery Units	Communication IC AFE for Digital Cameras Signal Processing Color CCD Controllers Analog-to-Digital Converter for Battery Charger MCUs
General Purpose AMS Cell	Bandgap Amplifiers Comparators Programmable Current and Voltage References Standard Cells	CCD Controller Image Processing Units ‧ Generic Analog and Digital Building Blocks ‧ Automatic Gain Control Amplifiers,Bandgap, etc
RF Building Block Library	Low Noise Amplifiers VCOs Transceiver Building Blocks	Mobile Handsets Wireless Appliances

Examples
A snapshot inside a mobile phone that can use the AMS IC libraries for better performance with lower cost

IC Designs

	Mobile Terminal and Multimedia





	Applied SoC Designs





	Portable Analog and Mixed Signal Designs

	Advanced Programmable Video Codec (H.264) Engine for Mobile Devices
	Java™ Acceleration Engine for Mobile Devices
	Digital TV Processing Engine for Next-generation Broadcasting

	Low-power Design in Deep-SubMicron Implementations for Multimedia SoC
	Low-power MCU (Micro-controller Unit) Architecture Platform

	Analog and Mixed Signal Designs Technology Platforms for Portable Consumer Applications