Optimized sizing of analog circuits using the interior-point method for nonconvex nonlinear functions under MATLAB

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo Almeida Araújo da Silva;Ana Isabela Araújo Cunha;Luciana Martinez

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil;Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil;Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th symposium on Integrated circuits and systems design
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents an application of the Interior-Point method of optimization to the design of a CMOS analog integrated circuit. We have chosen the minimum voltage log-domain Seevinck's integrator, where devices operate in weak inversion, so that model equations, required bias conditions and circuit architecture lead to nonposynomial general equations and restrictions that are represented by nonconvex functions. The optimization problem is formulated and the MATLAB optimization toolbox is used to find transistor dimensions and biasing currents. Circuit simulation is performed with these results.