Overview
- A roadmap for analog CAD and its implementation algorithm-by-algorithm, presented by notable figures in analog CAD and analog design field who have experience in both the academia and industry
- A compelling demonstration of how to overcome a key problem in computational intelligence (genetic programming): trustworthy synthesis of complex structures
- A renewed emphasis for analog CAD tools to give insight to analog designers, with many creative examples of new insights provided
- Each of the tools described show the first-ever approach to solving their respective problem in a fashion that is industrially palatable. Specifically: SANGRIA is the first approach that simultaneously does global and variation-aware analog sizing. CAFFEINE is the first approach for template-free symbolic modeling. MOJITO is the first approach that does trustworthy analog topology synthesis without the need for unreasonable user inputs, and MOJITO-R is the first approach which does it with variation-awareness. The specs-to-topology decision trees are the first which are automatically-constructed. The nonlinear sensitivity analysis is the first-ever approach which includes both structural and sizing parameters. MOJITO-N and ISCLEs are the first approaches to novel topology design which do not have issues with designer trust
Part of the book series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing (ACSP)
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“This book is squarely aimed at analog circuit designers who are searching for new approaches to analog structural design and optimization. … Those most likely to benefit from this book … are experts in the field of industrial circuit design seeking insight into new design tools. … for the non-expert, with only a cursory understanding of the background material, the processes and results described in this book are an inspiring example of real-world applications of evolutionary design.” (John Rieffel, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 12, 2011)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Trent McConaghy is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Solido Design Automation Inc. He was a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Analog Design Automation Inc., which was acquired by Synopsys Inc. in 2004. Prior to that, he did research for the Canadian Department of National Defense. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 2008. He received a Bachelor’s in Engineering (with great distinction), and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science (with great distinction), both from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1999. He has about 40 peer-reviewed technical papers and patents granted / pending. He has given invited talks / tutorials at many labs, universities, and conferences such as JPL, MIT, ICCAD, and DAC. He is regularly a technical program committee member and reviewer in both the CAD and intelligent systems fields, such as IEEE Trans CAD, ACM TODAES, Electronics Letters, to IEEE Trans Evolutionary Computation, the Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, GPTP, GECCO, ICES, etc. His research interest is in statistical machine learning and intelligent systems, with transistor-level CAD applications such as variation-aware design, analog topology design, automated sizing, knowledge extraction, and symbolic modeling.
Michiel Steyaert was born in Aalst, Belgium, in 1959. He received the masters degree in electrical-mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Heverlee, Belgium in 1983 and 1987, respectively. From 1983 to 1986 he obtained an IWNOL fellowship (Belgian National Fundation for Industrial Research) which allowed him to work as a Research Assistant at the Laboratory ESAT at K.U.Leuven. In 1987 he was responsible for several industrial projects in the field of analog micropower circuits at the Laboratory ESAT as an IWONL Project Researcher. In 1988 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor atthe University of California, Los Angeles. In 1989 he was appointed by the National Fund of Scientific Research (Belgium) as Research Associate, in 1992 as a Senior Research Associate and in 1996 as a Research Director at the Laboratory ESAT, K.U.Leuven. Between 1989 and 1996 he was also a part-time Associate Professor. He is now a Full Professor at the K.U.Leuven. His current research interests are in high-performance and high-frequency analog integrated circuits for telecommunication systems and analog signal processing. Prof.Steyaert received the 1990 and 2001 European Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award. He received the 1991 and the 2000 NFWO Alcatel-Bell-Telephone award for innovative work in integrated circuits for telecommunications. Prof.Steyaert received the 1995 and 1997 IEEE-ISSCC Evening Session Award, the 1999 IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award and is currently an IEEE-Fellow.
Georges Gielen received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He currently is a Full Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation (modeling, simulation and symbolic analysis, analog synthesis, analog layout generation, analog and mixed-signal testing). He is coordinator or partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area, including several European projects (EU, MEDEA, ESA). He has authored or coauthored five books and more than 300 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He regularly is a member of the Program Committees of international conferences (DAC, ICCAD, ISCAS, DATE, CICC...), and served as General Chair of the DATE conference in 2006 and of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in 2007. He serves regularly as member of editorial boards of international journals (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Springer international journal on Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Elsevier Integration). He received the 1995 Best Paper Award in the John Wiley international journal on Circuit Theory and Applications, and was the 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy on Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering. He received the 2000 Alcatel Award from the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research for his innovative research in telecommunications, and won the DATE 2004 Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, served as elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits And Systems (CAS) society and as chairman of the IEEE Benelux CAS chapter. He served as the President of the IEEE Circuits And Systems (CAS) Society in 2005. He was elected DATE Fellow in 2007, and received the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Meritorious Service Award in 2007.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Variation-Aware Analog Structural Synthesis
Book Subtitle: A Computational Intelligence Approach
Authors: Trent McConaghy, Pieter Palmers, Peng Gao, Michiel Steyaert, Georges Gielen
Series Title: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2906-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2905-8Published: 21 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2608-6Published: 29 November 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2906-5Published: 13 July 2009
Series ISSN: 1872-082X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1854
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 305
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Theory of Computation, Artificial Intelligence