MAELSTROM: efficient simulation-based synthesis for custom analog cells
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Optimization of inductor circuits via geometric programming
Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Design and optimization of LC oscillators
ICCAD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
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
Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems
Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Generalized Posynomial Performance Modeling
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
Asymptotic probability extraction for non-normal distributions of circuit performance
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ACM International conference on Computer-aided design
Anaconda: simulation-based synthesis of analog circuits via stochastic pattern search
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Efficient handling of operating range and manufacturing line variations in analog cell synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Optimal design of a CMOS op-amp via geometric programming
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Worst-case analysis and optimization of VLSI circuit performances
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Asymptotic probability extraction for non-normal distributions of circuit performance
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
Robust system level design with analog platforms
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Design automation for analog: the next generation of tool challenges
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Simulation-based reusable posynomial models for MOS transistor parameters
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Statistical performance modeling and optimization
Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation
Classification of analog synthesis tools based on their architecture selection mechanisms
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Fast analog circuit synthesis using sensitivity based near neighbor searches
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Yield-aware hierarchical optimization of large analog integrated circuits
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Performance-driven circuit and layout co-optimization for deep-submicron analog circuits
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
A platform-based methodology for system-level mixed-signal design
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - Special issue on design methodologies and innovative architectures for mixed-signal embedded systems
CalCS: SMT solving for non-linear convex constraints
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
Adaptive Modeling of Analog/RF Circuits for Efficient Fault Response Evaluation
Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications
PAGE: parallel agile genetic exploration towards utmost performance for analog circuit design
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
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We propose a robust analog design tool (ROAD) for post-tuning analog/RF circuits. Starting from an initial design derived from hand analysis or analog circuit synthesis based on simplified models, ROAD extracts accurate posynomial performance models via transistor-level simulation and optimizes the circuit by geometric programming. Importantly, ROAD sets up all design constraints to include large-scale process variations to facilitate the tradeoff between yield and performance. A novel convex formulation of the robust design problem is utilized to improve the optimization efficiency and to produce a solution that is superior to other local tuning methods. In addition, a novel projection-based approach for posynomial fitting is used to facilitate scaling to large problem sizes. A new implicit power iteration algorithm is proposed to find the optimal projection space and extract the posynomial coefficients with robust convergence. The efficacy of ROAD is demonstrated on several circuit examples.