Vendor: Agile Analog Category: Comparator

Programmable-Threshold Comparator

The agileCMP GP Programmable Threshold Comparator features a user-selectable (enable/disable) hysteresis as well as programmable …

Overview

The agileCMP GP Programmable Threshold Comparator features a user-selectable (enable/disable) hysteresis as well as programmable threshold with 10mV step size, a latched output, as well as an active (unlatched) output. With a focus on long battery life, the agileCMP GP can be used to monitor external analog signals and enable wake-up events as is essential in many modern SoCs. The agileCMP GP Programmable Threshold Comparator is ideally suited for interrupt generation in applications such as in IoT, Security, Automotive, AI and general SoCs and ASICs.

Agile Analog designs are based on tried and tested architectures to ensure reliability and functionality. Our design methodology is programmatic, systematic and repeatable leading to analog IP that is more verifiable, more robust and more reliable. Our methodology also allows us to quickly re-target our IP to different process options. We support all the major foundries including TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Intel Foundry, Samsung Foundry, UMC and Other Foundries.

Key features

  • Configurable to your specification
  • Rail-to-rail input voltage range
  • Low threshold offset voltage
  • Programmable threshold voltage
  • Programmable hysteresis
  • Dynamic and static (latched) outputs
  • Low propagation delay

Block Diagram

Benefits

  • Best-in-class deliverables for easy and seamless integration: our engineers have extensive experience taking complex SoCs from design to mass production
  • We believe that success is not just measured by delivery of netlist and layout, rather it extends to mass-production and beyond
  • Automated design procedure accelerates design time and enables quick re-centering with latest PDK updates so you can tape out with the latest foundry models
  • Tried and tested architecture ensures reliability and functionality

Applications

  • IoT, Security, Automotive, AI, SoCs, ASICs

What’s Included?

  • Datasheet
  • Testing and Integration Guide
  • Verilog Models
  • Floorplan (LEF)
  • Timing models (LIB)
  • Netlist (CDL)
  • Layout (GDS)
  • Physical Verification Report
  • Design Report

Files

Note: some files may require an NDA depending on provider policy.

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
agileCMP
Vendor
Agile Analog
Type
Silicon IP

Provider

Agile Analog
HQ: United Kingdom
Agile Analog is transforming the world of analog IP with Composa™, its innovative, configurable, multi-process analog IP technology. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with a growing number of partners and customers across the globe, Agile Analog has developed a unique way to automatically generate analog IP that meet the customer’s exact specifications on almost any process from any foundry. The company provides a wide and ever expanding selection of analog IP and subsystems for power management, data conversion, IC health and monitoring, security and always-on domains. Agile Analog's novel approach utilises tried and tested analog circuits within its Composa library to create customised and verified analog IP solutions. This reduces the time to market and increases quality, helping to accelerate innovation in semiconductor design.

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