@inproceedings{b2f3d666c6ae415b899293083d21987c,
title = "PAGE: Parallel agile genetic exploration towards utmost performance for analog circuit design",
abstract = "This paper presents an agile hierarchical synthesis framework for analog circuit. To acknowledge the limitation for a given topology analog circuit, this hierarchical synthesis work proposes a performance exploration technique and a non-uniform-step simulation process. Apart from spec targeted designs, this proposed approach can help to search the solutions better than designers' expectation. A parallel genetic algorithm (PAGE) method is employed for performance exploration. Unlike other evolution-based topology explorations, this is the first method that regards performance constraints as input genome for evolution and resolves the multiple-objective problem with the multiple-population feature. Populations of selected performance are transfered to device variables by re-targeting technique. Based on a normalization of device variable distribution, a probabilistic stochastic simulation significantly reduces the convergence time to find the global optima of circuit performance. Experimental results show that our approach on radio-frequency distributed amplifier (RFDA) and folded cascode operational amplifier (Op-Amp) in different technologies can obtain better runtime and higher quality in analog synthesis.",
author = "Pan, {Po Cheng} and Hung-Ming Chen and Lin, {Chien Chih}",
year = "2013",
month = oct,
day = "21",
doi = "10.7873/DATE.2013.369",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783981537000",
series = "Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE",
pages = "1849--1854",
booktitle = "Proceedings - Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2013",
note = "null ; Conference date: 18-03-2013 Through 22-03-2013",
}