Fast Mixed-Signal System Prototyping using Unique Programmable Analog Array

Terms like co-design and mixed-signal prototyping have become high attention in the last years, because of the rising need for even shorter time-to-market. Unified solutions for fast design of heterogeneous systems would adequate reduce the overall time needed for their validation as if each subsystem was de-signed separately. In the following, we will present an unique approach to mixed-signal system evalua-tion based on the programmable hardware. The problem of the analog subsystem ”on-Chip ” prototyping was realized with novel, patented Electrically Programmable Analog Array (EPAA). It was designed for class of sensor signal conditioning problems. EPAA with its fully parameterizable architecture can be configured either at transistor level or using pre-defined function blocks from macro-library. First mea-surements on a couple of test-cases have proven the suitability of our approach, especially for low-power smart sensors ’ signal conditioning applications.