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Duplex: Simultaneous Parameter-Performance Exploration for Optimizing Analog Circuits

Ahmadyan, Seyed Nematollah; Vasudevan, Shobha

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UILU-ENG-16-2201.pdf

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/90213

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Title
Duplex: Simultaneous Parameter-Performance Exploration for Optimizing Analog Circuits
Author(s)
  • Ahmadyan, Seyed Nematollah
  • Vasudevan, Shobha
Issue Date
2016-05
Keyword(s)
  • Design space exploration
  • Circuit simulation
  • Circuit synthesis
  • Optimization
  • Random tree search
Date of Ingest
  • 2016-05-31T16:04:59Z
  • 2017-07-14T23:09:44Z
Abstract
We present Duplex random tree search, an algorithm to optimize performance metrics of analog and mixed signal circuits. Duplex determines the optimal design, the Pareto set, and the sensitivity of a circuit’s performance metrics to its parameters. We demonstrate that Duplex is 5x faster than the state-of-the-art and finds the global optimum for a design whose previously published result was a local optimum. We show our algorithm’s scalability by optimizing a system-level post-layout charged-pump PLL circuit.
Publisher
Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Coordinated Science Laboratory Report no. UILU-ENG-16-2201
Type of Resource
  • text
  • image
Genre of Resource
Technical Report
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90213
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
National Science Foundation / NSF CCF 14-23431

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Report - Coordinated Science Laboratory PRIMARY