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Speaker:

Dr. Henry Chang - Designer's Guide Consulting, Inc.
Introduction to AV for the DV Engineer 

Abstract:

Functional complexity in analog, mixed-signal, and RF (A/RF) designs is increasing dramatically. Today's simple A/RF functional block such as an RF receiver or power management unit can have hundreds to thousands of control bits. A/RF designs implement many modes of operation, have complex digital logic interacting with the analog, implement complex sequences of operation and can contain user programmability.

Increasingly, catastrophic failures in chips are due to functional bugs, and not due to missed performance specifications. Rigorous and systematic analog verification (AV) is now required when designing large analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuits, and as a result, AV is beginning to be adopted across the analog design industry. This change mirrors the change that occurred in digital design with the introduction of digital verification 10 to 15 years ago. In this presentation, we will present background on AV, and discuss differences and similarities between analog and digital verification. We will also touch upon synergies and how the digital verification can help the analog verification engineer.

Bio: 

• Dr. Henry Chang co-founded Designer’s Guide Consulting in 2005. Since then, he and his co-founder, Dr. Ken Kundert, have focused on solving the analog, mixed-signal, and RF verification challenge from the chip to the block level. They have worked side by side with many design teams, often taking on the verification task themselves.

• Prior to Designer’s Guide, Dr. Chang worked at Cadence, Micro Linear, and GE. Dr. Chang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994 and his Sc.B. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 1989. He is the author of several books on design methodology, author of many technical papers, and holds over ten US patents. He is also on the steering committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.