Title :
HECTOR: a hierarchical topology-construction program for analog circuits based on a declarative approach to circuit modeling
Author :
Swings, Koen ; Donnay, Stéphane ; Sansen, Willy
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Catholic Univ. of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Abstract :
The program HECTOR is presented. Its main goal is to construct a circuit topology for a specific analog function using library descriptions of commonly used basic building blocks. Of particular interest is HECTOR´s construction strategy, which is hierarchical, interactive, and expert-system-assisted. Equally important is HECTOR´s declarative and context-independent approach to describing building blocks in the library. This last aspect of HECTOR contributes new ideas to current developments in analog hardware description languages (AHDLs). A prototype version of HECTOR has been implemented on a TI Explorer II
Keywords :
analogue circuits; circuit CAD; expert systems; interactive systems; linear integrated circuits; network topology; specification languages; HECTOR; TI Explorer II; analog circuits; analog hardware description languages; circuit modeling; circuit topology; context-independent approach; declarative approach; expert-system-assisted; hierarchical topology-construction program; rule-based strategy; Algorithm design and analysis; Analog circuits; Bandwidth; Circuit synthesis; Circuit topology; Design automation; Equations; Hardware design languages; Libraries; Prototypes;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1991., Proceedings of the IEEE 1991
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0015-7
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.1991.164041
