ASF: A practical simulation-based methodology for the synthesis of custom analog circuits

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 350-357

  Krasnicki, Michael J ^a   Phelps, Rodney ^b   Hellums, James R ^a   McClung, Mark ^a   Rutenbar, Rob A ^b   Carley, L Richard ^b  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; TOPOLOGY;

ANALOG SYNTHESIS FRAMEWORK (ASF);

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0035208991     PISSN: 10923152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD.2001.968646     Document Type: Article

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