Electronic Design Automation of Analog ICs combining Gradient Models with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms

This book applies to the scientific area of electronic design automation (EDA) and addresses the automatic sizing of analog integrated circuits (ICs). Particularly, this book presents an approach to enhance a state-of-the-art layout-aware circuit-level optimizer (GENOM-POF), by embedding statistical knowledge from an automatically generated gradient model into the multi-objective multi-constraint optimization kernel based on the NSGA-II algorithm. The results showed allow the designer to explore the different trade-offs of the solution space, both through the achieved device sizes, or the respective layout solutions.

List of contents

Introduction.- Related Work.- Gradient Model Generation.- Enhanced Circuit-Level Optimization Kernel.- Case Studies.- Conclusions and Outlook.

Product details

• Authors: Nuno C. G. Horta, Nuno C.G. Horta, Nuno C. C. Lourenço, Nuno C.C. Lourenço, Ricardo M. F. Martins, Ricardo M.F. Martins, Frederico A. E. Rocha, Frederico A.E. Rocha
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9783319021881
• ISBN: 978-3-31-902188-1
• No. of pages: 69
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 143 g
• Illustrations: XI, 69 p. 39 illus.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology; SpringerBriefs in Computational Intelligence
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; C, Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, engineering, Circuits and Systems, Algorithms & data structures, Computational Intelligence, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Electronic circuits, Electronic Circuits and Systems