Behavioral synthesis of field programmable analog array circuits

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 563-604

  Wang, Haibo ^a   Vrudhula, Sarma B K ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog synthesis; Programmable circuits

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; GRAPH THEORY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION;

PROGRAMMABLE CIRCUITS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS;

EID: 0036826797     PISSN: 10844309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/605440.605445     Document Type: Article

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