Automated Design of Analog and High-frequency Circuits: A Computational Intelligence Approach

by Bo Liu, Georges Gielen, Francisco V Fernandez

Basic Concepts and Background.- Fundamentals of Optimization Techniques in Analog IC Sizing.- High-Performance Analog IC Advanced Constraint Handling and Search Methods.- Analog Circuit Sizing with Fuzzy Addressing Soft Constraints.- Process Variation-aware Analog Circuit Uncertain Optimization.- Ordinal Optimization-based Methods for Efficient Variation-aware Analog IC Sizing.- Electromagnetic Design Surrogate Model Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm.- Passive Components Synthesis at High Handling Prediction Uncertainty.- mm-Wave Linear Amplifier Design A First Step to Complex Problems.- mm-Wave Nonlinear IC and Complex Antenna Handling High Dimensionality.

252 pages, Paperback

First published August 6, 2013