Global design of analog cells using statistical optimization techniques
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing - Special issue on analog signal processing
DARWIN: CMOS opamp synthesis by means of a genetic algorithm
DAC '95 Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Swarm intelligence
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ASF: a practical simulation-based methodology for the synthesis of custom analog circuits
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Genetic AlgorithmsNumerical Optimizationand Constraints
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A Cooperative Coevolutionary Approach to Function Optimization
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Proceedings of the 2003 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)
Reuse Based Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
Reuse Based Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
Classification of analog synthesis tools based on their architecture selection mechanisms
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Evolutionary algorithms, homomorphous mappings, and constrained parameter optimization
Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary algorithms for constrained parameter optimization problems
Evolutionary Computation
Cooperative co-evolutionary differential evolution for function optimization
ICNC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Natural Computation - Volume Part II
Automated synthesis of analog electrical circuits by means ofgenetic programming
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
Synthesis of high-performance analog circuits in ASTRX/OBLX
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
DELIGHT.SPICE: an optimization-based system for the design of integrated circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Optimal design of a CMOS op-amp via geometric programming
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Analog IC design automation. II. Automated circuit correction by qualitative reasoning
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Convergence analysis of canonical genetic algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
A memetic approach to the automatic design of high-performance analog integrated circuits
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Constraint multi-objective automated synthesis for CMOS operational amplifier
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A double-layer genetic algorithm for Gm-C filter design
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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
Swarm intelligence: making differences in analogue circuits structure for fault-tolerance
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
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This paper investigates a hybrid evolutionary-based design system for automated sizing of analog integrated circuits (ICs). A new algorithm, called competitive co-evolutionary differential evolution (CODE), is proposed to design analog ICs with practical user-defined specifications. On the basis of the combination of HSPICE and MATLAB, the system links circuit performances, evaluated through electrical simulation, to the optimization system in the MATLAB environment, once a circuit topology is selected. The system has been tested by typical and hard-to-design cases, such as complex analog blocks with stringent design requirements. The results show that the design specifications are closely met, even in highly-constrained situations. Comparisons with available methods like genetic algorithms and differential evolution, which use static penalty functions to handle design constraints, have also been carried out, showing that the proposed algorithm offers important advantages in terms of optimization quality and robustness. Moreover, the algorithm is shown to be efficient.