State-of-the-Art on Automatic Analog IC Sizing

Rocha, Frederico A. E.; Martins, Ricardo; Lourenço, Nuno; Horta, Nuno

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02189-8_2

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“…Another example is the work of [5], that employs simmulated annealing as an optimization process to design opamps, comparing favorably with hand-made designs. In general, it possible to define two broad class of automatic design methods for ICs, knowledge-based and optimization-based, as reviewed in [25]. The first group of methods used techniques derived from deep domain knowledge and expert experience.…”

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“…The first group of methods used techniques derived from deep domain knowledge and expert experience. As [25] points out, these methods are often quite efficient but usually are very difficult to develop and even more complicated to update as technology evolves.…”

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“…The automated design process of integrated circuits (IC) based on complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) is carried out by the industry of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), to synthesize amplifiers, voltage followers, current mirrors, among other circuits. EDA is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems, which typically are validated by simulation [4,15,17,26,33,35,25].…”

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A topology synthesis method is introduced using genetic algorithms (GA) based on novelty search (NS). NS is an emerging meta-heuristic, that guides the search based on the novelty of each solution instead of the objective function. The synthesized topologies are current follower (CF) circuits; these topologies are new and designed using integrated circuit CMOS technology of 0.35µm. Topologies are coded using a chromosome divided into four genes: small signal gene (SS), MOSFET synthesis gene (SMos), polarization gene (Bias) and current source synthesis gene (CM). The proposed synthesis method is coded in MatLab and uses SPICE to evaluate the CFs fitness. The GA based on NS (GA-NS) is compared with a standard objective-based GA, showing unique search dynamics and improved performance. Experimental results show twelve CFs synthesized by the GA-NS algorithm, and their main attributes are summarized and discussed. This work is the first to show that NS can be used as a promising alternative in the field of automatic circuit synthesis.

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confidence: 99%