Access Description
Technical Offering
Main Equipment
Typical Application
Case Study
Responsible
Low-power Analog & Mixed-signal Design
- Access Description
- Access to low power analog & mixed signal design for IoT building blocks.
- Technical Offering
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- Expertise in Low power analog & mixed signal circuit design for IoT building blocks
- Advice for process node selection trade-offs
- High-level system modelling in MatLab
- Circuit design, layout design, simulation, analysis using industry standard tools
- Silicon prototype evaluation
- Main Equipment
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- Analogue mixed-signal design tools from Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics
- Knowledge management tools from Cliosoft and Atlassian
- Compute infrastructure – 192 CPU cores, 1.4TB RAM, 48TB RAID
- Process Design Kits from 10 fabrication companies ranging from 0.35µm to 28nm
- Bench characterisation equipment for silicon circuit prototype evaluation
- Typical applications
- Many applications valuing low and ultra-low power design techniques, including mobile consumer, wearable devices, implantable Medtech, and IoT edge devices incorporating power management (with or without energy harvesting), sensor interface (analog-to-digital conversion), and low power wireless communication.
- Case Study
- Responsible
- Donnacha O'Riordan
