On-chip sinusoidal signal generation with harmonic cancelation for analog and mixed-signal BIST applications

This work presents a technique for the on- chip generation of analog sinusoidal signals with high spectral quality and reduced circuitry resources. The proposed generation technique consists of a modi ed low-order analog lter, that provides a sinusoidal out- put as response to a DC input, combined w...

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Autores: Barragán Asián, Manuel José, Léger, Gildas, Vázquez García de la Vega, Diego, Rueda Rueda, Adoración
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/64493
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/64493
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-014-0456-0
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:On-chip signal generators
On-chip sine-wave generators
Harmonic cancellation
Analog BIST
Mixed-signal BIST
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Sumario:This work presents a technique for the on- chip generation of analog sinusoidal signals with high spectral quality and reduced circuitry resources. The proposed generation technique consists of a modi ed low-order analog lter, that provides a sinusoidal out- put as response to a DC input, combined with a har- monic cancellation strategy to improve the linearity of the generated signal. The proposed generator has the attributes of digital programming and control, low area overhead, and low design e ort, which make this ap- proach very suitable as test stimulus generator for built- in test applications. An integrated prototype designed in a 180nm CMOS technology is presented in order to show the feasibility of the technique. Results obtained from the prototype show a THD around 80dB.