Surrogate models of Pareto-optimal planar inductors

Author

Kotti, M. ; González-Echevarría, R. ; Roca, E. ; Castro-López, R. ; Fernández, F.V. ; Fakhfakh, M. ; Sieiro, J. ; López-Villegas, J.M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

fYear

2012

fDate

19-21 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Systematic design methodologies for wireless transceivers require an efficient design of integrated inductors. Early availability of feasible trade-offs between inductance, quality factor and area, is a key enabler towards the improvement of such design methodologies. This paper introduces such an approach in two steps. First, a Pareto-optimal performance front of integrated inductors is obtained by embedding an electromagnetic simulator into a multi-objective optimization tool. Then, starting from the obtained optimal samples, a surrogate model of the performance front is obtained. Experimental results in a 0.35μm CMOS technology are provided.

Keywords

Pareto optimisation; inductors; radio transceivers; CMOS technology; Pareto-optimal performance front; Pareto-optimal planar inductor; electromagnetic simulator; inductance; integrated inductor; multiobjective optimization tool; quality factor; size 0.35 mum; surrogate model; systematic design methodology; wireless transceiver; Computational modeling; Inductance; Inductors; Integrated circuit modeling; Optimization; Q factor; Radio frequency; RF circuit design; integrated planar inductors; multi-objective optimization; performance modeling; surrogate modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seville

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0685-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMACD.2012.6339412

Filename

6339412