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Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03 Designers' Forum)
Synthesis of CMOS Analog Cells Using AMIGO
Munich, Germany
March 03-March 07
ISBN: 0-7695-1870-2
Ramy Iskander, Mentor Graphics Corporation
Mohamed Dessouky, Ain Shams University
Maie Aly, Ain Shams University
Mahmoud Magdy, Ain Shams University
Noha Hassan, Ain Shams University
Noha Soliman, Ain Shams University
Sami Moussa, Ain Shams University
In this paper, a simulation-based synthesis tool, AMIGO, for analog cell sizing is presented. AMIGO is based upon genetic optimization techniques adapted to circuit sizing. A framework has been developed using TCL/TK language that allows the designer to set the optimization problem, define complex constraint functions, watch the progress of optimization, and finally view results. To increase design reliability a sizing-rule pre-processor is incorporated in the tool to automatically generate topology related constraints specific to analog building blocks. Different approaches of using circuit optimizers are demonstrated through the synthesis of three different analog cells: a latched-type comparator, a folded cascode opamp and a switched-capacitor integrator. AMIGO showed to be a successful synthesis tool that can be part of a more general synthesis/migration flow.
Citation:
Ramy Iskander, Mohamed Dessouky, Maie Aly, Mahmoud Magdy, Noha Hassan, Noha Soliman, Sami Moussa, "Synthesis of CMOS Analog Cells Using AMIGO," date, vol. 2, pp.20297, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE'03 Designers' Forum), 2003
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