BWRC Publications

Citation
Brian Richards, Nicola Nicolici, Henry Chen, Kevin Chao, Robert Abiad, Dan Werthimer, Borivoje Nikolic. "A 1.5GS/s 4096-Point Digital Spectrum Analyzer for Space-Borne Applications". IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, September, 2009.

Abstract
A high-performance digital spectrometer backend ASIC has been designed for use with an off-the-shelf ADC frontend. The design is based on an architecture described in Simulink that has been field-tested on FPGA platforms for radio astronomy applications. The architecture maximizes the utilization of operators to nearly 100%. A test structure has been added to the design to support the detection of soft errors, since several space-borne applications may expose the circuit to high-energy particles. An in-house automated design flow was used to map the same Simulink description to a 90nm CMOS ASIC, preserving cycle-accurate and bit-accurate behavior. The chip operates with clock rates up to 390MHz, delivering a throughput of up to 1.56GS/s with 710 mW of power.

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  Brian Richards, Nicola Nicolici, Henry Chen, Kevin Chao,
  Robert Abiad, Dan Werthimer, Borivoje Nikolic. <a
  href="http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/php/pubs/pubs.php/1090.html">A
  1.5GS/s 4096-Point Digital Spectrum Analyzer for Space-Borne
  Applications</a>, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
  Conference, September, 2009.

• Plain text

  Brian Richards, Nicola Nicolici, Henry Chen, Kevin Chao,
  Robert Abiad, Dan Werthimer, Borivoje Nikolic. "A 1.5GS/s
  4096-Point Digital Spectrum Analyzer for Space-Borne
  Applications". IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference,
  September, 2009.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{RichardsNicoliciChenChaoAbiadWerthimerNikolic2009,
      author = {Brian Richards and Nicola Nicolici and Henry Chen
                and Kevin Chao and Robert Abiad and Dan Werthimer
                and Borivoje Nikolic},
      title = {A 1.5GS/s 4096-Point Digital Spectrum Analyzer for
                Space-Borne Applications},
      booktitle = {IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference},
      month = {September},
      year = {2009},
      URL = {http:///php/pubs/pubs.php/1090.html}
  }
  

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