Electronic Design Automation of Analog ICs combining Gradient Models with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
Author | : Frederico A.E. Rocha |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783319021898 |
ISBN-13 | : 3319021893 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.