Deyan Levski, University of Oxford, UK, publishes a companion video to his IISW 2017 paper "A 12-bit Column-Parallel Flash TDC-Interpolated Ramp ADC with Online Digital Delay Element Correction" explaining a bug causing a larger than expected DNL in the ADC - quite a rare, possibly unique, video where an original designer explains his own bugs:
This video is extremely interesting, thanks for sharing it with us!
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What an honor to see this here! Should I have known I would have done a better and shorter demo. This link appeared on the last slide of the IISW presentation and intended to elaborate on the DNL glitching on every 16th code, as the 9-minute presentation slot was not enough for this.
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There have been attempts at having designers talk about their errors in iscas before, but i don't know if it has not been repeated http://www.iscas2012.org/sub/mistakes.html
ReplyDeleteActually, this 2012 mistakes session was a repetition from ISCAS 2011:
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However, these mistakes were not recorded on Youtube, to the best of my knowledge.