Empirical model-building and response surface
Empirical model-building and response surface
A video driver system designed using a top-down, constraint-driven methodology
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Practical synthesis of high-performance analog circuits
Practical synthesis of high-performance analog circuits
Remembrance of circuits past: macromodeling by data mining in large analog design spaces
Proceedings of the 39th annual Design Automation Conference
A Computer-Aided Design and Synthesis Environment for Analog Integrated Circuits
A Computer-Aided Design and Synthesis Environment for Analog Integrated Circuits
Support vector machines for analog circuit performance representation
Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
Performance Modeling of Analog Integrated Circuits Using Least-Squares Support Vector Machines
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
Convex Optimization
OPERA: optimization with ellipsoidal uncertainty for robust analog IC design
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Mixed signal design space exploration through analog platforms
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
Design space exploration for a UMTS front-end exploiting analog platforms
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
Platform-based mixed signal design: Optimizing a high-performance pipelined ADC
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
Modeling and design of CMOS analog circuits through hierarchical abstraction
Integration, the VLSI Journal
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An approach to robust system level mixed signal design is presented based on analog platforms. The bottom-up characterization phase of platform components provides accurate performance models that export architectural constraints to the system level. From the one side, performance models can be affected by residual errors and usually do not consider process variations and modeling uncertainties. Conversely, behavioral models cannot match accurate circuit level simulations, so that during the mapping (exploration) process circuit configurations difficult to be realized may be obtained. We propose a methodology that extends techniques from optimization and design centering to system level analog design exploiting general, implicit architectural constraints to control the robustness of the solution. The approach allows quantitative extension of robust techniques to hierarchical designs. Its effectiveness is illustrated with the design of a pipeline A/D converter and a UMTS receiver front-end.