MAELSTROM: efficient simulation-based synthesis for custom analog cells

Author

Krasnicki, Michael ; Phelps, Rodney ; Rutenbar, Rob A. ; Carley, L. Richard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

945

Lastpage

950

Abstract

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

Keywords

analogue integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; circuit optimisation; circuit simulation; genetic algorithms; integrated circuit design; MAELSTROM; analog synthesis tools; circuit validation; custom analog cells; genetic/annealing optimizer; simulation environment; simulation-based synthesis; simulator-in-the-loop analog synthesis; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Computer industry; Computer simulation; Engines; Network synthesis; Permission; Simulated annealing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 36th

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

1-58113-092-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAC.1999.782233

Filename

782233