ADC for Deep Submicron Technologies - ARDES

High volume SoC solutions for wireless and wireline communication solutions must move to deep sub micron technologies to remain competitive. Higher bandwidth, lower power consumption and more features are requested by the customers. ARDES targets the xDSL and mobile handset markets, together they are expected to see revenue of more than 55 Billion USD in 2007. Moving mixed signal devices to deep sub micron technologies is one of the biggest challenges facing SoC and SiP designers today. The economic advantages for the first movers are expected to be huge as it will allow for a host of new features on the consumer side and will reduce complexity, power consumption and overall costs on the provider side. The ARDES project team will tackle the problem of analog to digital conversion in deep sub micron CMOS. These components are key enablers for communications SoC's and SiP solutions. The results of ARDES will give a significant advantage compared to existing solutions, allowing it to offer less expensive, more power efficient solutions with greater flexibility and shorter time to market.

The project ARDES was started in January 2008 and will have a duration of 2 years. It is a cooperation with

• Infineon Technologies Austria AG
• Carlos III University - UC3M

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences will contribute with modeling, design and implementation of high-speed digital blocks. Furthermore an evaluation platform will be developed. The project is funded by Fit-IT and industrial partners.