BANDIT: embedding analog-to-digital converters on digital telecom ASICs

This paper summarizes the objectives and some early results of the ESPRIT project 29260 BANDIT. It is a 3 year project that started in September 1998. Coordinating partner is IMEC and the other partners are K.U. Leuven and Ericsson Radio Systems (ERA). The goal of BANDIT is to develop a general design and test methodology for embedding high-speed analog/digital converters (ADCs) on large digital telecom ASICs, with special attention to the problems caused by mixed-signal integration, such as substrate noise coupling. After an overview of the project objectives, the first results in the field of substrate noise coupling analysis are presented.