Electronic Design Automation of Analog ICs combining Gradient Models with Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms, 2014 SpringerBriefs in Computational Intelligence Series

This book applies to the scientific area of electronic design automation (EDA) and addresses the automatic sizing of analog integrated circuits (ICs). Particularly, this book presents an approach to enhance a state-of-the-art layout-aware circuit-level optimizer (GENOM-POF), by embedding statistical knowledge from an automatically generated gradient model into the multi-objective multi-constraint optimization kernel based on the NSGA-II algorithm. The results showed allow the designer to explore the different trade-offs of the solution space, both through the achieved device sizes, or the respective layout solutions.

Introduction.- Related Work.- Gradient Model Generation.- Enhanced Circuit-Level Optimization Kernel.- Case Studies.- Conclusions and Outlook.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras