Despite the fact that in the digital domain, designers can take full benefits of IPs and design automation tools to synthesize and design very complex systems, the analog designers’ task is still considered as a ‘handcraft’, cumbersome and very time consuming process. Thus, tremendous efforts are being deployed to develop new design methodologies in the analog/RF and mixed-signal domains.
This book collects 16 state-of-the-art contributions devoted to the topic of systematic design of analog, RF and mixed signal circuits. Divided in the two parts Methodologies and Techniques recent theories, synthesis techniques and design methodologies, as well as new sizing approaches in the field of robust analog and mixed signal design automation are presented for researchers and R/D engineers.
Author(s): Michael Eick, Helmut Graeb (auth.), Mourad Fakhfakh, Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, Rafael Castro-Lopez (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 233
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 381
Tags: Electrical Engineering; Circuits and Systems; Computing Methodologies
Front Matter....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Towards Automatic Structural Analysis of Mixed-Signal Circuits....Pages 3-25
Efficient Synthesis Methods for High-Frequency Integrated Passive Components and Amplifiers....Pages 27-52
Self-Healing Circuits Using Statistical Element Selection....Pages 53-75
Improving Design Feature Reuse in Analog Circuit Design through Topological-Symbolic Comparison and Design Concept Combination....Pages 77-99
Graph-Based Symbolic and Symbolic Sensitivity Analysis of Analog Integrated Circuits....Pages 101-122
A Designer-Assisted Analog Synthesis Flow....Pages 123-148
Analog Circuit Design Based on Robust POFs Using an Enhanced MOEA with SVM Models....Pages 149-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Applications of Symbolic Analysis in the Design of Analog Circuits....Pages 171-194
Synthesis of Electronically-Controllable Signal Processing/Signal Generation Circuits Using Modern Active Building Blocks....Pages 195-221
Synthesis of Generalized Impedance Converter and Inverter Circuits Using NAM Expansion....Pages 223-242
Fractional Step Analog Filter Design....Pages 243-267
The Flipped Voltage Follower: Theory and Applications....Pages 269-287
Synthesis of Analog Circuits Using Only Voltage and Current Followers as Active Elements....Pages 289-315
Design of Setable Active Lossy Inductors....Pages 317-336
MIDAS: Microwave Inductor Design Automation on Silicon....Pages 337-361
LC-VCO Design Challenges in the Nano-Era....Pages 363-379
Back Matter....Pages 381-381
