Analog design optimization by means of a Tabu Search approach

Author

Aguirre, M.A. ; Chávez, J. ; Torralba, A. ; Franquelo, L.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ingenieria Electronica, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Sevilla, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

30 May-2 Jun 1994

Firstpage

375

Abstract

Although many design tools have been developed for digital design, analog design tools are just being introduced. This paper deals with device sizing of analog cells. A new method using the Tabu Search heuristic is proposed. It minimizes a given cost function, which depends on a set of designer specifications. The results obtained show that this method can approach very close the global minimum of the cost function with only a few number of iterations. Hence, an analog simulation program, such as SPICE, can be used for the evaluation of the cost function at each iteration

Keywords

SPICE; analogue integrated circuits; circuit CAD; circuit optimisation; integrated circuit design; SPICE; Tabu Search heuristic; analog design optimization; analog simulation program; cost function; designer specifications; device sizing; global minimum; iterations; Circuit simulation; Circuit topology; Computational modeling; Cost function; Design optimization; IEEE members; Minimization; Process design; SPICE; Simulated annealing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1994. ISCAS '94., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1915-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1994.408875

Filename

408875