Empirical model-building and response surface
Empirical model-building and response surface
A video driver system designed using a top-down, constraint-driven methodology
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Practical synthesis of high-performance analog circuits
Practical synthesis of high-performance analog circuits
Remembrance of circuits past: macromodeling by data mining in large analog design spaces
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
A Computer-Aided Design and Synthesis Environment for Analog Integrated Circuits
A Computer-Aided Design and Synthesis Environment for Analog Integrated Circuits
Support vector machines for analog circuit performance representation
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
Performance Modeling of Analog Integrated Circuits Using Least-Squares Support Vector Machines
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Convex Optimization
OPERA: optimization with ellipsoidal uncertainty for robust analog IC design
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Mixed signal design space exploration through analog platforms
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
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
Design space exploration for a UMTS front-end exploiting analog platforms
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Performance-centering optimization for system-level analog design exploration
ICCAD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Platform-based mixed signal design: Optimizing a high-performance pipelined ADC
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Robust system level design with analog platforms
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
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The complexity of today's embedded electronic systems as well as their demanding performance and reliability requirements are such that their design can no longer be tackled with ad hoc techniques while still meeting tight time to-market constraints. In this paper, we present a system level design approach for electronic circuits, utilizing the platform-based design (PBD) paradigm as the natural framework for mixed-domain design formalization. In PBD, a meet-in-the-middle approach allows systematic exploration of the design space through a series of top-down mapping of system constraints onto component feasibility models in a platform library, which is based on bottom-up characterizations. In this framework, new designs can be assembled from the precharacterized library components, giving the highest priority to design reuse, correct assembly, and efficient design flow from specifications to implementation. We apply concepts from design centering to enforce robustness to modeling errors as well as process, voltage, and temperature variations, which are currently plaguing embedded system design in deep-submicron technologies. The effectiveness of our methodology is finally shown on the design of a pipeline A/D converter and two receiver front-ends for UMTS and UWB communications.