Anaconda: simulation-based synthesis of analog circuits via stochastic pattern search

R Phelps, M Krasnicki, RA Rutenbar… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] MAELSTROM: Efficient simulation-based synthesis for custom analog cells

M Krasnicki, R Phelps, RA Rutenbar… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 1999 - dl.acm.org
Analog synthesis tools have failed to migrate into mainstream use primarily because of
difficulties in reconciling the simplified models required for synthesis with the industrial …

A circuit representation technique for automated circuit design

JD Lohn, SP Colombano - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method of automatically generating circuit designs using evolutionary search
and a set of circuit constructing primitives arranged in a linear sequence. This representation …

Enabling efficient analog synthesis by coupling sparse regression and polynomial optimization

Y Wang, M Orshansky, C Caramanis - Proceedings of the 51st Annual …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The challenge of equation-based analog synthesis comes from its dual nature: functions
producing good least-square fits to SPICE-generated data are non-convex, hence not …

Synthesis of high-performance analog circuits in ASTRX/OBLX

ES Ochotta, RA Rutenbar… - IEEE Transactions on …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new synthesis strategy that can automate fully the path from an analog circuit
topology and performance specifications to a sized circuit schematic. This strategy relies on …

Remembrance of circuits past: macromodeling by data mining in large analog design spaces

H Liu, A Singhee, RA Rutenbar, LR Carley - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
The introduction of simulation-based analog synthesis tools creates a new challenge for
analog modeling. These tools routinely visit 103 to 105 fully simulated circuit solution …

FEATS: Framework for explorative analog topology synthesis

M Meissner, L Hedrich - IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new methodology for automated analog circuit synthesis, aiming to
address the challenges known from other analog synthesis approaches: unsatisfactory time …

A synthesis system for analog circuits based on evolutionary search and topological reuse

TR Dastidar, PP Chakrabarti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for automated synthesis of analog circuits using evolutionary search
and a set of circuit design rules based on topological reuse. The system requires only …

An evolutionary approach to automatic synthesis of high-performance analog integrated circuits

G Alpaydin, S Balkir, G Dundar - IEEE Transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an analog integrated circuit synthesis system based on an evolutionary
approach. The system contains several novel features. One of these is the high-performance …

An efficient multi-fidelity bayesian optimization approach for analog circuit synthesis

S Zhang, W Lyu, F Yang, C Yan, D Zhou… - Proceedings of the 56th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents an efficient multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization approach for analog
circuit synthesis. The proposed method can significantly reduce the overall computational …