Title :
MAELSTROM: efficient simulation-based synthesis for custom analog cells
Author :
Krasnicki, Michael ; Phelps, Rodney ; Rutenbar, Rob A. ; Carley, L. Richard
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
Analog synthesis tools have failed to migrate into mainstream use primarily because of difficulties in reconciling the simplified models required for synthesis with the industrial-strength simulation environments required for validation. MAELSTROM is a new approach that synthesizes a circuit using the same simulation environment created to validate the circuit. We introduce a novel genetic/annealing optimizer, and leverage network parallelism to achieve efficient simulator-in-the-loop analog synthesis
Keywords :
analogue integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; circuit optimisation; circuit simulation; genetic algorithms; integrated circuit design; MAELSTROM; analog synthesis tools; circuit validation; custom analog cells; genetic/annealing optimizer; simulation environment; simulation-based synthesis; simulator-in-the-loop analog synthesis; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Computer industry; Computer simulation; Engines; Network synthesis; Permission; Simulated annealing;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 36th
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-092-9
DOI :
10.1109/DAC.1999.782233
