Applications of artificial intelligence on the modeling and optimization for analog and mixed-signal circuits: A review

M Fayazi, Z Colter, E Afshari… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there have been many studies attempting to take advantage of advancements in
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) circuit design. Automated circuit …

An artificial neural network assisted optimization system for analog design space exploration

Y Li, Y Wang, Y Li, R Zhou, Z Lin - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a new analog circuit optimization system for automated sizing of analog
integrated circuits. It consists of a genetic algorithm (GA)-based global optimization engine …

An efficient batch-constrained bayesian optimization approach for analog circuit synthesis via multiobjective acquisition ensemble

S Zhang, F Yang, C Yan, D Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bayesian optimization is a promising methodology for analog circuit synthesis. However, the
sequential nature of the Bayesian optimization framework significantly limits its ability to fully …

Locomobo: A local constrained multiobjective bayesian optimization for analog circuit sizing

K Touloupas, PP Sotiriadis - IEEE Transactions on Computer …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A local constrained multiobjective Bayesian optimization (LoCoMOBO) method is introduced
to address automatic sizing and tradeoff exploration for analog and RF integrated circuits …

Surrogate-assisted robust optimization of large-scale networks based on graph embedding

S Wang, J Liu, Y Jin - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust optimization of complex networks has attracted much attention in recent years.
Although existing methods have been successful in achieving promising results, the …

Efficient yield optimization for analog and SRAM circuits via Gaussian process regression and adaptive yield estimation

M Wang, W Lv, F Yang, C Yan, W Cai… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a Bayesian optimization approach is proposed for yield optimization of analog
and SRAM circuits. Gaussian process (GP) regression is employed to predict the yield over …

Robustanalog: Fast variation-aware analog circuit design via multi-task rl

W Shi, H Wang, J Gu, M Liu, DZ Pan, S Han… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Analog/mixed-signal circuit design is one of the most complex and time-consuming stages in
the whole chip design process. Due to various process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) …

An efficient high-frequency linear RF amplifier synthesis method based on evolutionary computation and machine learning techniques

B Liu, N Deferm, D Zhao, P Reynaert… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) design automation methods focus on the
synthesis of circuits at a few GHz, typically less than 10 GHz. That framework is difficult to …

Local Bayesian optimization for analog circuit sizing

K Touloupas, N Chouridis… - 2021 58th ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a Bayesian Optimization (BO) algorithm to handle large-scale analog
circuit sizing. The proposed approach uses a number of separate Gaussian Process (GP) …

An efficient evolutionary algorithm for chance-constrained bi-objective stochastic optimization

B Liu, Q Zhang, FV Fernández… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In engineering design and manufacturing optimization, the trade-off between a quality
performance metric and the probability of satisfying all performance specifications (yield) of …