The traditional dilemma for performing network simulations with analog circuits is the great difficulty of handling the connectivity in hardware. The main problem is that hardware-based connectivity must be built following predefined plasticity and connectivity rules, and that once the hardware is built, it is usually not possible to change its configuration. We show here an alternative system ...

This paper describes an improved version of the program SEAS (a Simulated Evolution approach for Analog circuit Synthesis), in which an approach for selection of alternatives based on the evaluation of mutation values is developed, and design automafion for high performance comparators is covered.

A method for visualization of analog circuit schematic starting from a netlist is described in this paper. The images obtained have a comprehensible form, symmetrical structures and other analog topological patterns being discovered in the circuit netlist. The method is based on two algorithms. The first one, the symmetry algorithm, exploits the possibility to extract topology information from ...

In recent years, there has been an expanding research on the applications of fractional calculus to the areas of signal processing, modeling, and controls. Analog circuit implementation of chaotic systems is used in studying the nonlinear dynamical phenomena, as well as applied in realizing the controller development. In this paper, chain fractance and tree fractance circuits are constructed to...

In this thesis three novel analog techniques for testing CMOS Integrated circuits are presented. These techniques are based on analog circuits since they offer a number of important advantages compared to standard digital test techniques, such us less silicon area, lower power consumption and high operating speed. Therefore, the proposed techniques can be embedded in the circuit under test, con...

Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET) is a promising new technology that overcomes several limitations of traditional silicon integrated circuit technology. In recent years, the potential of CNFET for analog circuit applications has been explored. This paper proposes a novel four quadrant analog multiplier design using CNFETs. The simulation based on 32nm CNFET technology shows that t...

A two-dimensional network for motion detection constructed of simple analog circuits was proposed and designed based on the frog visual system. In the frog visual system, the two-dimensional motion of a moving object can be detected by performing simple information processing in the tectum and thalamus of the frog brain. The measured results of the test chip fabricated by a 1.2 μm complementary...

We describe a synthesis system that takes operating range constraints and inter and intracircuit parametric manufacturing variations into account while designing a sized and biased analog circuit. Previous approaches to computer-aided design for analog circuit synthesis have concentrated on nominal analog circuit design, and subsequent optimization of these circuits for statistical fluctuations...