Synthesis tools for mixed-signal ICs: progress on frontend and backend strategies
DAC '96 Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
Feedback biasing in nanoscale CMOS technologies
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Modified model for settling behavior of operational amplifiers in nanoscale CMOS
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Design solutions for sample-and-hold circuits in CMOS nanometer technologies
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Design and implementation of ultralow current-mode amplifier for biosensor applications
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
22.7-db gain-19.7-dbm ICP1dB UWB CMOS LNA
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
A binary-weighted switching and reconfiguration-based programmable gain amplifier
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
A CMOS VGA with DC offset cancellation for direct-conversion receivers
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
A high-gain acquisition system with very large input range
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
A 1.2-V 12-b 120-MS/s SHA-free dual-channel Nyquist ADC based on midcode calibration
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers - Special issue on ISCAS2008
Single-capacitor active-feedback compensation for small-capacitive-load three-stage amplifiers
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
A single-chip 2.5-Gb/s CMOS burst-mode optical receiver
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
Bang-bang control class D amplifiers: total harmonic distortion and supply noise
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
Analysis and design of the 0.13-µm CMOS shunt-series series-shunt dual-feedback amplifier
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers
Sufficient conditions for inventive solutions
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
The invention of CMOS amplifiers using genetic programming and current-flow analysis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
An axiomatic model for concept structure description and its application to circuit design
Knowledge-Based Systems
Integration, the VLSI Journal
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Analog circuit design activity is currently a less formalized process, in which the main source for innovation is the designer's ability to produce new designs by combining basic devices, sub-circuits, and ideas from similar solutions. There are few systematic methods that can fuse and transform the useful features of the existing designs into new solutions. Moreover, most automated circuit synthesis tools are still limited to routine tasks, like transistor sizing and layout design. Developing new design techniques that can combine the existing design features requires metrics that describe the uniqueness and variety of the features. This paper evaluates for analog circuits two such general-purpose metrics proposed in [1,2]. Three case studies are discussed on using the metrics to characterize the design features of current mirrors, transconductors, and operational amplifiers. The two metrics and the presented study is useful in producing an overall characterization of analog circuit features. This can help in enhancing the circuit design process, training of young designers, and developing new automated synthesis tools that can explore more solution space regions that are likely to include novel design features.