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From: John Griessen (john_g AT cibolo DOT com) Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 12:22:17 EST
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 15:08, cfk wrote: > Dear John: > Well, the tutorials are a great start. . . > make a few > conceptual drawings of a proposed chip with pads and even make some subcell > hierarchy and drop in a prototypical PCI interface (just I/O defined, > nothing more complicated then that). I was able to do a 'plot postscript > <file>.ps', load it with a postscript editor in Linux (I use gimp) and print > out a color plot of the floorplan of a proposed chip. [jg]Sounds great for consultant presentations to company chiefs! > > On the RFID, --- Before just suggesting books, perhaps you could > tell us which ones you already have [jg]Chip design books: Verilog HDL, Designer's Guide to VHDL 2nd ed. Principles of Verifiable RTL design, then the old textbooks from 1979... I am planning to pull in others for the RF part, and likely just buy that from a RFID design/foundry company. I would appreciate suggestions for minimalist analog design of a no-external-parts temperature sensor to go along with the RFID function. Things like how to build temperature independent voltage references and compare to temperature dependent diode voltage analogous to temperature to +/- 1 degree F accuracy. I imagine converting voltage to a frequency or a number and passing numbers through a look up table, (in an off-chip part of the system), to get temperature without necessarily even having volatile/non-volatile memory cells on chip.. > perhaps we can suggest a few > interesting ones for your project.
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