Practical methods of optimization; (2nd ed.)
Practical methods of optimization; (2nd ed.)
CATHEDRAL II—a computer-aided synthesis system for digital signal processing VLSI systems
Computer-Aided Engineering Journal
Genetic programming: on the programming of computers by means of natural selection
Genetic programming: on the programming of computers by means of natural selection
An integrated approach to realistic worst-case design optimization of MOS analog circuits
DAC '92 Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
A new optimizer for performance optimization of analog integrated circuits
DAC '93 Proceedings of the 30th international Design Automation Conference
A statistical optimization-based approach for automated sizing of analog cells
ICCAD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Stochastic optimization approach to transistor sizing for CMOS VLSI circuits
DAC '94 Proceedings of the 31st annual Design Automation Conference
ARCHGEN: automated synthesis of analog systems
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
DARWIN: CMOS opamp synthesis by means of a genetic algorithm
DAC '95 Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
A high-level design and optimization tool for analog RF receiver front-ends
ICCAD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Synthesis tools for mixed-signal ICs: progress on frontend and backend strategies
DAC '96 Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference
A video driver system designed using a top-down, constraint-driven methodology
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Optimal RF design using smart evolutionary algorithms
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
Power estimation methods for analog circuits for architectural exploration of integrated systems
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Remembrance of circuits past: macromodeling by data mining in large analog design spaces
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
The sizing rules method for analog integrated circuit design
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
ASF: a practical simulation-based methodology for the synthesis of custom analog circuits
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Design of pipeline analog-to-digital converters via geometric programming
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Architectural selection of A/D converters
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
A two-layer library-based approach to synthesis of analog systems from VHDL-AMS specifications
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Automated design of operational transconductance amplifiers using reversed geometric programming
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
Correct-by-construction layout-centric retargeting of large analog designs
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
A synthesis flow toward fast parasitic closure for radio-frequency integrated circuits
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
OPERA: optimization with ellipsoidal uncertainty for robust analog IC design
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
A unified optimization framework for equalization filter synthesis
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Systematic Synthesis of Active-RC Circuit Building-Blocks
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Robust analog/RF circuit design with projection-based posynomial modeling
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Differential Evolution: A Practical Approach to Global Optimization (Natural Computing Series)
Differential Evolution: A Practical Approach to Global Optimization (Natural Computing Series)
Top-down heterogeneous synthesis of analog and mixed-signal systems
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
SOC-NLNA: synthesis and optimization for fully integrated narrow-band CMOS low noise amplifiers
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
Simultaneous multi-topology multi-objective sizing across thousands of analog circuit topologies
Proceedings of the 44th annual Design Automation Conference
Evolutionary computation: comments on the history and current state
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Automated synthesis of analog electrical circuits by means ofgenetic programming
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
A circuit representation technique for automated circuit design
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms: a comparative case studyand the strength Pareto approach
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Parameter optimization of an on-chip voltage reference circuitusing evolutionary programming
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
An evolutionary approach to automatic synthesis of high-performance analog integrated circuits
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
A methodology for system-level synthesis of mixed-signal applications
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Synthesis of high-performance analog circuits in ASTRX/OBLX
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
FASY: a fuzzy-logic based tool for analog synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Automation of IC layout with analog constraints
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
BLADES: an artificial intelligence approach to analog circuit design
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Algorithm-driven synthesis of data conversion architectures
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
JiffyTune: circuit optimization using time-domain sensitivities
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
OASYS: a framework for analog circuit synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
OPASYN: a compiler for CMOS operational amplifiers
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
DELIGHT.SPICE: an optimization-based system for the design of integrated circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
CMOS op-amp sizing using a geometric programming formulation
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
AMGIE-A synthesis environment for CMOS analog integrated circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
CYCLONE: automated design and layout of RF LC-oscillators
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
The invention of CMOS amplifiers using genetic programming and current-flow analysis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
WATSON: design space boundary exploration and model generation for analog and RFIC design
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
A high-level simulation and synthesis environment for ΔΣ modulators
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Exploration-based high-level synthesis of linear analog systems operating at low/medium frequencies
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Consistency checking and optimization of macromodels
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Algorithms and Software Tools for IC Yield Optimization Based on Fundamental Fabrication Parameters
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
A study on global and local optimization techniques for TCAD analysis tasks
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
STAIC: an interactive framework for synthesizing CMOS and BiCMOS analog circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Circuit analysis and optimization driven by worst-case distances
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Mixed analog/digital hardware synthesis of artificial neural networks
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Analog IC design automation. I. Automated circuit generation: new concepts and methods
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Integer programming based topology selection of cell-level analog circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
FPAD: a fuzzy nonlinear programming approach to analog circuit design
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
ANTIGONE: Top-down creation of analog-to-digital converter architectures
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Analog circuit optimization system based on hybrid evolutionary algorithms
Integration, the VLSI Journal
A Sigma-Delta ADC design automation tool with embedded performance estimator
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Analog circuits optimization based on evolutionary computation techniques
Integration, the VLSI Journal
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
An automated high-level topology generation procedure for continuous-time ΣΔ modulator
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Simulation-based analog and RF circuit synthesis using a modified evolutionary strategies algorithm
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Automatic filter synthesis based on tree generation and evolutionary optimization
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part IV
GENOM-POF: multi-objective evolutionary synthesis of analog ICs with corners validation
Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Context-dependent transformation of Pareto-optimal performance fronts of operational amplifiers
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
An axiomatic model for concept structure description and its application to circuit design
Knowledge-Based Systems
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This overview paper presents a classification and brief descriptions of design strategies supported by analog EDA tools developed by researchers and companies in recent history over more than 20 years. In contrast to other classification systems, the method used to obtain the topology or architecture is taken as base for the classification. Different methods may be preferred depending on the type of system, the abstraction level, the experience of the designer or the need for extensive exploration of different architectures. Therefore, this overview helps the analog designer to select the right approach for the right task.