Remembrance of circuits past: macromodeling by data mining in large analog design spaces
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
Generation of Technology-Independent Retargetable Analog Blocks
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
CAD solutions and outstanding challenges for mixed-signal and RFIC design
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
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
A Framework for Designing Reusable Analog Circuits
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Synthesis of a Wireless Communication Analog Back-End Based on a Mismatch-Aware Symbolic Approach
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Defining Cost Functions for Robust IC Design and Optimization
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe: Designers' Forum - Volume 2
Deterministic approaches to analog performance space exploration (PSE)
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
Performance-centering optimization for system-level analog design exploration
ICCAD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Top-down heterogeneous synthesis of analog and mixed-signal systems
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
A CPPLL hierarchical optimization methodology considering jitter, power and locking time
Proceedings of the 43rd annual Design Automation Conference
GA-SVM feasibility model and optimization kernel applied to analog IC design automation
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Statistical performance modeling and optimization
Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
Fuzzy techniques in optimization: based analog design
FS'08 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
Fuzzy techniques in analog circuit design
WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems
Journal of Global Optimization
A memetic approach to the automatic design of high-performance analog integrated circuits
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Proceedings of the 2007 EvoWorkshops 2007 on EvoCoMnet, EvoFIN, EvoIASP,EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC and EvoTransLog: Applications of Evolutionary Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Behavior-level yield enhancement approach for large-scaled analog circuits
Proceedings of the 47th Design Automation Conference
Constraint multi-objective automated synthesis for CMOS operational amplifier
LSMS/ICSEE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Life system modeling and simulation and intelligent computing, and 2010 international conference on Intelligent computing for sustainable energy and environment: Part II
A geometric programming aided knowledge based approach for analog circuit synthesis and sizing
Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI
A fast heuristic approach for parametric yield enhancement of analog designs
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) - Special section on verification challenges in the concurrent world
Variability-aware, discrete optimization for analog circuits
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation Conference
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
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Operating-point driven formulation for analog computer-aided design
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
LASER: layout-aware analog synthesis environment on laker
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM international conference on Great lakes symposium on VLSI
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
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Analog synthesis tools have traditionally traded quality for speed, substituting simplified circuit evaluation methods for full simulation in order to accelerate the numerical search for solution candidates. As a result, these tools have failed to migrate into mainstream use primarily because of difficulties in reconciling the simplified models required for synthesis with the industrial-strength simulation environments required for validation. We argue that for synthesis to be practical, it is essential to synthesize a circuit using the same simulation environment created to validate the circuit. In this paper, we develop a new numerical search algorithm efficient enough to allow full circuit simulation of each circuit candidate, and robust enough to find good solutions for difficult circuits. The method combines the population-of-solutions ideas from evolutionary algorithms with a novel variant of pattern search, and supports transparent network parallelism. Comparison of several synthesized cell-level circuits against manual industrial designs demonstrates the utility of the approach