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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF MIXED-SIGNAL DESIGNS
A mixed-signal design is a combination of tightly interlaced analog and digital circuitry. Next-generation automotive, imaging, IoT, 5G, computing, and storage markets are driving the strong demand for increasing mixed-signal content in modern systems on chips (SoCs). There are two critical reasons for this trend. First, machines today are consuming more and more real-world analog information, such as light, touch, sound, vibration, pressure, or temperature, and bringing it into the digital world for processing. The second reason for this growing mixed-signal trend is technology scaling. The improved PPA (Power Performance Area) efficiency realized by digital circuits due to CMOS scaling has
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