Variation Aware Analog Structural Synthesis

Author : Trent McConaghy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048129060
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variation-Aware Analog Structural Synthesis written by Trent McConaghy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes new tools for front end analog designers, starting with global variation-aware sizing, and extending to novel variation-aware topology design. The tools aid design through automation, but more importantly, they also aid designer insight through automation. We now describe four design tasks, each more general than the previous, and how this book contributes design aids and insight aids to each. The ?rst designer task targeted is global robust sizing. This task is supported by a design tool that does automated, globally reliable, variation-aware s- ing (SANGRIA),and an insight-aiding tool that extracts designer-interpretable whitebox models that relate sizings to circuit performance (CAFFEINE). SANGRIA searches on several levels of problem dif?culty simultaneously, from lower cheap-to-evaluate “exploration” layers to higher full-evaluation “exploitation” layers (structural homotopy). SANGRIAmakes maximal use of circuit simulations by performing scalable data mining on simulation results to choose new candidate designs. CAFFEINE accomplishes its task by tre- ing function induction as a tree-search problem. It constrains its tree search space via a canonical-functional-form grammar, and searches the space with grammatically constrained genetic programming. The second designer task is topology selection/topology design. Topology selection tools must consider a broad variety of topologies such that an app- priate topology is selected, must easily adapt to new semiconductor process nodes, and readily incorporate new topologies. Topology design tools must allow designers to creatively explore new topology ideas as rapidly as possible.

Author : Trent McConaghy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146142268X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide written by Trent McConaghy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book targets custom IC designers who are encountering variation issues in their designs, especially for modern process nodes at 45nm and below, such as statistical process variations, environmental variations, and layout effects. It teaches them the state-of-the-art in Variation-Aware Design tools, which help the designer to analyze quickly the variation effects, identify the problems, and fix the problems. Furthermore, this book describes the algorithms and algorithm behavior/performance/limitations, which is of use to designers considering these tools, designers using these tools, CAD researchers, and CAD managers.

Author : Mourad Fakhfakh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319198726
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Intelligence in Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) and Radio-Frequency (RF) Circuit Design written by Mourad Fakhfakh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the application of recent advances in computational intelligence – algorithms, design methodologies, and synthesis techniques – to the design of integrated circuits and systems. It highlights new biasing and sizing approaches and optimization techniques and their application to the design of high-performance digital, VLSI, radio-frequency, and mixed-signal circuits and systems. This first of two related volumes addresses the design of analog and mixed-signal (AMS) and radio-frequency (RF) circuits, with 17 chapters grouped into parts on analog and mixed-signal applications, and radio-frequency design. It will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in computer science and electronics engineering engaged with the design of electronic circuits.

Author : Bo Liu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642391621
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automated Design of Analog and High-frequency Circuits written by Bo Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational intelligence techniques are becoming more and more important for automated problem solving nowadays. Due to the growing complexity of industrial applications and the increasingly tight time-to-market requirements, the time available for thorough problem analysis and development of tailored solution methods is decreasing. There is no doubt that this trend will continue in the foreseeable future. Hence, it is not surprising that robust and general automated problem solving methods with satisfactory performance are needed.

Author : Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9533073233
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Analog Circuits written by Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights key design issues and challenges to guarantee the development of successful applications of analog circuits. Researchers around the world share acquired experience and insights to develop advances in analog circuit design, modeling and simulation. The key contributions of the sixteen chapters focus on recent advances in analog circuits to accomplish academic or industrial target specifications.

Author : Mario Köppen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642217052
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Computational Optimization in Engineering written by Mario Köppen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often come across computational optimization virtually in all branches of engineering and industry. Many engineering problems involve heuristic search and optimization, and, once discretized, may become combinatorial in nature, which gives rise to certain difficulties in terms of solution procedure. Some of these problems have enormous search spaces, are NP-hard and hence require heuristic solution techniques. Another difficulty is the lack of ability of classical solution techniques to determine appropriate optima of non-convex problems. Under these conditions, recent advances in computational optimization techniques have been shown to be advantageous and successful compared to classical approaches. This Volume presents some of the latest developments with a focus on the design of algorithms for computational optimization and their applications in practice. Through the chapters of this book, researchers and practitioners share their experience and newest methodologies with regard to intelligent optimization and provide various case studies of the application of intelligent optimization techniques in real-world applications.This book can serve as an excellent reference for researchers and graduate students in computer science, various engineering disciplines and the industry.

Author : Rick Riolo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441977473
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VIII written by Rick Riolo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this volume are written by the foremost international researchers and practitioners in the GP arena. They examine the similarities and differences between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems. The text explores the synergy between theory and practice, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP application. Topics include: FINCH: A System for Evolving Java, Practical Autoconstructive Evolution, The Rubik Cube and GP Temporal Sequence Learning, Ensemble classifiers: AdaBoost and Orthogonal Evolution of Teams, Self-modifying Cartesian GP, Abstract Expression Grammar Symbolic Regression, Age-Fitness Pareto Optimization, Scalable Symbolic Regression by Continuous Evolution, Symbolic Density Models, GP Transforms in Linear Regression Situations, Protein Interactions in a Computational Evolution System, Composition of Music and Financial Strategies via GP, and Evolutionary Art Using Summed Multi-Objective Ranks. Readers will discover large-scale, real-world applications of GP to a variety of problem domains via in-depth presentations of the latest and most significant results in GP .

Author : Rick Riolo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461417708
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IX written by Rick Riolo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These contributions, written by the foremost international researchers and practitioners of Genetic Programming (GP), explore the synergy between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP. Topics include: modularity and scalability; evolvability; human-competitive results; the need for important high-impact GP-solvable problems;; the risks of search stagnation and of cutting off paths to solutions; the need for novelty; empowering GP search with expert knowledge; In addition, GP symbolic regression is thoroughly discussed, addressing such topics as guaranteed reproducibility of SR; validating SR results, measuring and controlling genotypic complexity; controlling phenotypic complexity; identifying, monitoring, and avoiding over-fitting; finding a comprehensive collection of SR benchmarks, comparing SR to machine learning. This text is for all GP explorers. Readers will discover large-scale, real-world applications of GP to a variety of problem domains via in-depth presentations of the latest and most significant results.

Author : Rafael Parpinelli
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535103644
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and New Applications of Swarm Intelligence written by Rafael Parpinelli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of research that studies the emergent collective intelligence of self-organized and decentralized simple agents is referred to as Swarm Intelligence. It is based on social behavior that can be observed in nature, such as flocks of birds, fish schools and bee hives, where a number of individuals with limited capabilities are able to come to intelligent solutions for complex problems. The computer science community have already learned about the importance of emergent behaviors for complex problem solving. Hence, this book presents some recent advances on Swarm Intelligence, specially on new swarm-based optimization methods and hybrid algorithms for several applications. The content of this book allows the reader to know more both theoretical and technical aspects and applications of Swarm Intelligence.

Author : Mourad Fakhfakh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642363296
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analog/RF and Mixed-Signal Circuit Systematic Design written by Mourad Fakhfakh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that in the digital domain, designers can take full benefits of IPs and design automation tools to synthesize and design very complex systems, the analog designers’ task is still considered as a ‘handcraft’, cumbersome and very time consuming process. Thus, tremendous efforts are being deployed to develop new design methodologies in the analog/RF and mixed-signal domains. This book collects 16 state-of-the-art contributions devoted to the topic of systematic design of analog, RF and mixed signal circuits. Divided in the two parts Methodologies and Techniques recent theories, synthesis techniques and design methodologies, as well as new sizing approaches in the field of robust analog and mixed signal design automation are presented for researchers and R/D engineers.