Analog Circuit Design Optimization based on Symbolic Simulation and Simulated Annealing

Gielen, Georges; Walscharts, H.; Sansen, Willy

doi:10.1109/esscirc.1989.5468066

Cited by 66 publications

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“…Like classical and knowledge-based methods, SA allows a very wide variety of performance measures and objectives to be handled. Simulated annealing has been used in several tools such as ASTR/OBLX [14] and OPTIMAN [15]. The main disadvantages of SA are that it can be very slow, and in practice it cannot guarantee a global optimal solution.…”

Section: Global Optimization Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

GPCAD: a tool for CMOS op-amp synthesis

Hershenson¹,

Boyd²,

Lee³

1998 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.98CB36287)

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We present a method for optimizing and automating component and transistor sizing for CMOS operational amplifiers. We observe that a wide variety of performance measures can be formulated as posynomial functions of the design variables. As a result, amplifier design problems can be formulated as a geometric program, a special type of convex optimization problem for which very efficient global optimization methods have recently been developed. The synthesis method is therefore fast, and determines the globally optimal design; in particular the final solution is completely independent of the starting point (which can even be infeasible), and infeasible specifications are unambiguously detected.After briefly introducing the method, which is described in more detail in [1], we show how the method can be applied to six common op-amp architectures, and give several example designs.

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Section: Global Optimization Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

GPCAD: a tool for CMOS op-amp synthesis

Hershenson¹,

Boyd²,

Lee³

1998 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. Digest of Technical Papers (IEEE Cat. No.98CB36287)

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“…Many publications about optimization of analogue continuous-working circuits have been written, e.g., (Gielen et al, 1990;Tichá & Martinek, 2005;Vondraš & Martinek, 2002;Žiška & Vrbata, 2006). From all the mentioned kinds of analogue continuous-working circuits, filters (i.e., selective circuits) were chosen for this section.…”

Section: Examples Of Optimization Of Analogue Continuous-working Circmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The utilization of EAs is widespread today, both in electronics, e.g., (Dolívka & Hospodka, 2007 c;Storn, 1996 b;Vondraš & Martinek, 2002;Žiška & Vrbata, 2006) -used the differential evolution, (Haseyama et al, 1996) -used genetic algorithms, (Gielen et al, 1990) -used simulated annealing, and in other branches, e.g., (Brutovský et al, 1995;Chambers, 2000;Dasgupta & Michalewicz, 1997).…”

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Using Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimization of Analogue Electronic Filters

Dolivka¹,

Hospodka²

2011

Evolutionary Algorithms

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“…To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. [9], STAIC [10], OASYS [11], DONALD [12], OPTIMAN [13] and SRFCC [14]. These tools can be categorized into knowledgebased or optimization-based analog sizing approaches.…”

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RF CMOS circuit optimizing procedure and synthesis tool

Rajagopal

Sridhar

Nunez

2003

Proceedings of the 13th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI

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In this paper, we discuss a methodology to design and synthesize analog CMOS components such as RF amplifiers. The inputs of the synthesis tool are the circuit specifications described at highlevel of abstraction, fabrication dependent technology parameters and un-sized circuit topologies. The output is a sized net list, which meets the user constraints.The synthesis environment considers user-defined performance parameters into account, and it relies on a genetic algorithm based heuristic method to search for a solution in a large design-space. The synthesis tool determines a solution set of design parameters such that the circuit satisfies the overall design constraints.

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Analog Circuit Design Optimization based on Symbolic Simulation and Simulated Annealing

Cited by 66 publications

References 7 publications

GPCAD: a tool for CMOS op-amp synthesis

GPCAD: a tool for CMOS op-amp synthesis

Using Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimization of Analogue Electronic Filters

RF CMOS circuit optimizing procedure and synthesis tool

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