ANACONDA: Robust Synthesis of Analog Circuits Via Stochastic Pattern Search
نویسندگان
چکیده
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 solution candidates. In this paper we develop a new numerical search algorithm efficient enough to allow full circuit simulation of each circuit candidate, and robust enough to find good solutions for difficult circuits. Comparison of synthesized circuits against manual industrial designs demonstrates the utility of the approach.
منابع مشابه
Anaconda: simulation-based synthesis of analog circuits viastochastic pattern search
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 solution candidates. As a result, these tools have failed to migrate into mainstream use primarily because of difficulties in reconciling the simplified models required for synthesis with the industrial-strengt...
متن کاملA Combined Stochastic Programming and Robust Optimization Approach for Location-Routing Problem and Solving it via Variable Neighborhood Search algorithm
The location-routing problem is one of the combined problems in the area of supply chain management that simultaneously make decisions related to location of depots and routing of the vehicles. In this paper, the single-depot capacitated location-routing problem under uncertainty is presented. The problem aims to find the optimal location of a single depot and the routing of vehicles to serve th...
متن کاملAutomated synthesis of multiple analog circuits using evolutionary computation for redundancy-based fault-tolerance
Analog circuits are one of the most important parts of modern electronic systems and the failure of electronic hardware presents a critical threat to the completion of modern aircraft, spacecraft, and robot missions. Compared to digital circuits, designing fault-tolerant analog circuits is a difficult and knowledge-intensive task. A simple but powerful method for robustness is a redundancy appr...
متن کاملSynthesis for Industrial-Scale Analog Intellectual Property
Analog synthesis tools have traditionally traded quality for speed, substituting simplified circuit evaluation methods for full simulation to accelerate the numerical search for solution candidates. I will argue that this is no longer an acceptable tradeoff: for a synthesis strategy to have practical impact, it must use a simulator-based evaluation engine identical to that used to validate ordi...
متن کاملMOCA ARM: Analog Reliability Measurement based on Monte Carlo Analysis
Due to the expected increase of defects in circuits based on deep submicron technologies, reliability has become an important design criterion. Although different approaches have been developed to estimate reliability in digital circuits and some measuring concepts have been separately presented to reveal the quality of analog circuit reliability in the literature, there is a gap to estimate re...
متن کامل