MAELSTROM: Efficient Simulation-Based Synthesis of Custom Analog Cells
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چکیده
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-strength simulation environments required for validation. MAELSTROM is a new approach that synthesizes a circuit using the same simulation environment created to validate the circuit. We introduce a novel genetic/ annealing optimizer, and leverage network parallelism to achieve efficient simulator-in-the-loop analog synthesis.
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