Performance estimator for an analog design automation system using EKV-modeled analog circuits

Author

Deniz, Engin ; Dündar, Günhan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bogazici Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

28 Aug.-2 Sept. 2005

Abstract

Design automation is an attractive solution for improving efficiency and productivity in the analog domain. This paper describes a novel method for designing a performance estimator (PE) tool to increase the speed of an analog design automation flow presented by Balkir et al. (2003). The method is based on using the analytical equations of the EKV transistor model to estimate the behavior of some basic analog blocks and later on utilizing the block estimations to arrive at the final circuit performance estimation. Finally, we apply the PE to various basic analog blocks and circuits to observe the effectiveness of the method.

Keywords

analogue circuits; circuit CAD; transistor circuits; EKV transistor model; analog block behavior; analog circuit design; analog design automation system; block estimation; circuit performance estimation; performance estimator tool; Analog circuits; Circuit synthesis; Design automation; Design engineering; Design methodology; Equations; MOSFETs; Performance analysis; Productivity; Table lookup;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuit Theory and Design, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9066-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCTD.2005.1523007

Filename

1523007