ADOPT-a CAD system for analog circuit design

Author

Lai, J.C. ; Kueng, J.S. ; Chen, H.J. ; Fernandez, F.J.

Author_Institution

Honeywell, Plymouth, MN, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

16-19 May 1988

Abstract

A description is given of the structure and use of the ADOPT (analog design via optimization) system. The ADOPT system consists of the circuit simulation program HSPICE (Honeywell´s version of SPICE), the nonlinear optimization program SUXES-10 (licensed from Meta-Software), and an interface routine called OPTLINK to link the two programs. OPTLINK is set up to pass design parameters and simulation results between SUXES-10 and HSPICE. SUXES-10 passes the initial parameter guess vector to HSPICE. HSPICE then uses these parameters to calculate the desired circuit responses to be optimized and passes the data to SUXES, using PRINT statements. These data are compared to the desired response data and SUXES-10 determines a new set of design parameters to reduce the difference between the two responses. This process continues until SUXES-10 terminates the optimization process

Keywords

circuit CAD; linear integrated circuits; optimisation; ADOPT; CAD system; HSPICE; OPTLINK; SUXES-10; analog circuit design; analog design; circuit simulation program; design parameters; initial parameter guess vector; interface routine; nonlinear optimization program; optimization; optimization process; response data; simulation results; Algorithms; Analog circuits; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Design automation; Design optimization; Equations; Optimization methods; Road transportation; Transient analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1988., Proceedings of the IEEE 1988

Conference_Location

Rochester, NY

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.1988.20790

Filename

20790