Watson: Design space boundary exploration and model generation for analog and RF IC design

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 213-224

  De Smedt, Bart ^a   Gielen, Georges G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Design automation; Design space exploration; Integrated circuit modeling; Multiobjective optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; CIRCUIT SYNTHESIS; DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MODELING; MULTIOBJECTIVE GENETIC OPTIMIZATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION TECHNIQUE;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0037318922     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2002.806598     Document Type: Article

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