A novel approach to VLSI analogue design

In general, analogue design is seen as a black art and is due to the lack of standardisation of the analogue design process. However, if analogue design is reduced to a subset of solutions then this situation will change. This paper presents a totally new approach to the analogue design process, and it is advantageous to consider the structure proposed here as a form of computer analogous in many ways to the digital computer; that is in the nature of Alan Turing's universal machine. It becomes necessary therefore to define an analogue instruction set which will allow an analogue design to be broken down into a subset of smaller instructions.