Macromodeling with SPICE
Tcl and the Tk toolkit
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Symbolic Analysis for Automated Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
Symbolic Analysis for Automated Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
The sizing rules method for analog integrated circuit design
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits
Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits
Synthesis of high-performance analog circuits in ASTRX/OBLX
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
AMGIE-A synthesis environment for CMOS analog integrated circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Operating-point driven formulation for analog computer-aided design
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
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In this paper, a simulation-based synthesis tool, AMIGO, for analog cell sizing is presented. AMIGO is based upon genetic optimization techniques adapted to circuit sizing. A framework has been developed using TCL/TK language that allows the designer to set the optimization problem, define complex constraint functions, watch the progress of optimization, and finally view results. To increase design reliability a sizing-rule pre-processor is incorporated in the tool to automatically generate topology related constraints specific to analog building blocks. Different approaches of using circuit optimizers are demonstrated through the synthesis of three different analog cells: a latched-type comparator, a folded cascode opamp and a switched-capacitor integrator. AMIGO showed to be a successful synthesis tool that can be part of a more general synthesis/migration flow.