Its not explicitly mentioned in the BAA to push mixed-signal chip performance. Should our designs push state-of-the-art, or just prove the self-healing concept?
The intent of this program is not specifically to push the state of the art of any particular Mixed-Signal component/microsystem, such as ADCs or RF synthesizers; the intent is to dramatically improve the performance yield of existing designs through the use of self-healing. However, it is also desirable that the proposed performance metrics be sufficiently aggressive to show that performance metrics that could only be achieved in a small number of baseline chips can be achieved for a large number of chips with the application of self-healing technology.
