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

• Main Authors: Liu, Bo (Author), Gielen, Georges (Author), Fernández, Francisco V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 501
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Computational intelligence techniques are becoming more and more important for automated problem solving nowadays. Due to the growing complexity of industrial applications and the increasingly tight time-to-market requirements, the time available for thorough problem analysis and development of tail...

Table of Contents:

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