Model Engineering in Mixed-Signal Circuit Design: A Guide to Generating Accurate Behavioral Models in VHDL-AMS

Model engineering is an important activity within the design flow of in— grated circuits and signal processing systems. This activity is not new at all in computer engineering, however, and takes a central role in practice. Model engineering of digital systems is based on agreed concepts of abstraction — erarchies for design object representations as well as the expressive power of hardware description languages (HDL). Since their gradual introduction over time HDL have proved to form the f...