Almeida, TD,da Silva, ACR,Grout, IA,

Methodology analysis of a computational tool used in electronic circuit design

2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (I2MTC)

2011

October

Published

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Synthesis Digital to Analog Converter computational tool

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This paper considers the importance of using a top-down methodology and suitable CAD tools in the development of electronic circuits. The paper presents an evaluation of the methodology used in a computational tool created to support the synthesis of digital to analog converter models by translating between different tools used in a wide variety of applications. This tool is named (MSSV)-S-2 and works directly with the following two commercial tools: MATLAB/Simulink and System Vision. Model translation of an electronic circuit is achieved by translating a mixed-signal block diagram developed in Simulink into a lower level of abstraction in VHDL-AMS and the simulation project support structure in System Vision. The method validation was performed by analyzing the power spectral of the signal obtained by the discrete Fourier transform of a digital to analog converter simulation model.