Symbolic Analysis for Automated Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
Published on 28. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 290 pages
978-1-4613-6769-7 (ISBN)
Description
It is a great honor to provide a few words of introduction for Dr. Georges Gielen's and Prof. Willy Sansen's book "Symbolic analysis for automated design of analog integrated circuits". The symbolic analysis method presented in this book represents a significant step forward in the area of analog circuit design. As demonstrated in this book, symbolic analysis opens up new possibilities for the development of computer-aided design (CAD) tools that can analyze an analog circuit topology and automatically size the components for a given set of specifications. Symbolic analysis even has the potential to improve the training of young analog circuit designers and to guide more experienced designers through second-order phenomena such as distortion. This book can also serve as an excellent reference for researchers in the analog circuit design area and creators of CAD tools, as it provides a comprehensive overview and comparison of various approaches for analog circuit design automation and an extensive bibliography. The world is essentially analog in nature, hence most electronic systems involve both analog and digital circuitry. As the number of transistors that can be integrated on a single integrated circuit (IC) substrate steadily increases over time, an ever increasing number of systems will be implemented with one, or a few, very complex ICs because of their lower production costs.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 290 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-6769-7 (9781461367697)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-3962-9
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Georges Gielen | Willy M.C. Sansen
Symbolic Analysis for Automated Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
Book
05/1991
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€160.49
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Persons
Georges G.E. Gielen received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He is currently Full Professor in the MICAS research division at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven. He was visiting professor in UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Since 2020 he is Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation. He is a frequently invited speaker/lecturer and coordinator/partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area, including several European projects. He has (co-)authored 10 books and more than 600 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He is a 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering.He is Fellow of the IEEE since 2002, and received the IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg award in 2015 and the IEEE CAS Charles Desoer award in 2020. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.
Luis Hernandez-Corporales received the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1989 en 1995, respectively. He did a postdoctoral stay in the U.S. during 1996 at the ECE dept. of Oregon State University. In 1997 he joined the University Carlos III of Madrid, where he is currently Full Professor in the Department of Electronic Technology and leads the mixed signal Microelectronic Design and Applications research group. His topics of interest focus on signal theory, mixed signal microelectronics and specifically data acquisition using sigma-delta modulation. He has published more than 150 scientific articles and holds 20 international patents. He is a member of the IEEE-CAS ASPTC committee and has been associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II for 8 years.
Pieter Rombouts received the Engineering degree in Applied Physics and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics from Ghent University, Belgium, in 1994 and 2000, respectively. Since 1994, he has been with the Electronics and Information Systems Department at Ghent University, where he has been a Professor of analog electronics since 2005. His technical interests are signal processing, circuits and systems theory, analog circuit design, and sensor systems. The main focus of his research has been on A/D and D/A conversion. He has served or is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II and Electronics Letters.
Content
1. Introduction to Analog Design Automation.- 1.1. Introduction.- 1.2. Definitions in analog design automation.- 1.3. Characteristics of analog design.- 1.4. Needs for analog circuits and analog design automation.- 1.5. Different analog design approaches and analog silicon compilation.- 1.6. Analog system-level synthesis.- 1.7. Outline of the book.- 2. The Automated Design of Analog Functional Modules.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Classification of analog module design programs.- 2.3. An automated design methodology for analog modules.- 2.4. The methodology applied to a simple example.- 2.5. Discussion of and comparison with other analog design systems.- 2.6. Conclusions.- 3. Symbolic Simulation of Analog Integrated Circuits.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. Definition and scope of symbolic simulation.- 3.3. Applications of symbolic analysis in analog design.- 3.4. General description of the ISAAC program.- 3.5. Conclusions.- 4. Algorithmic Aspects of Linear Symbolic Simulation.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Overview of symbolic analysis techniques.- 4.3. The set-up of the linear circuit equations.- 4.4. The symbolic solution of sets of linear equations.- 4.5. Symbolic expression approximation.- 4.6. Performance of the ISAAC program.- 4.7. Conclusions.- 5. Symbolic Distortion Analysis.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Symbolic noise analysis.- 5.3. Symbolic analysis of harmonic distortion in weakly nonlinear analog circuits.- 5.4. Symbolic sensitivity analysis and zero/pole extraction.- 5.5. Techniques for the hierarchical symbolic analysis of large circuits.- 5.6. Conclusions.- 6. Analog Design Optimization Based on Analytic Models.- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. Circuit sizing based on an optimization of analytic models.- 6.3. The analog design formulation in OPTIMAN.- 6.4. Practical design examples.- 6.5. Automated layout generation of analog integrated circuits.- 6.6. Conclusions.- Appendix A. Characterization of a CMOS Two-Stage OPAMP.- References.