Title : ( Simulation-Equation-Based Methodology for Design of CMOS Amplifiers Using Geometric Programming )
Authors: Mohammad Hossein Maghami , Farzad Inanlou , Reza Lotfi ,
Full TextAbstract
Geometric Programming (GP) has been employed in automatic design of analog integrated circuits. Its major advantage is the ability to find the globally optimum solution to a problem. It however, suffers from dependency on the accuracy of the initial equations and the parameters used in these equations. This, in circuit design, causes discrepancies between GP predictions and simulation results - especially in sub-micron devices - thus resulting in a non-globally optimum circuit design. In this paper, two major sources of this discrepancy are introduced and resolved by an iterative simulation-equationbased design methodology based on GP for operational amplifiers. In order to show the effectiveness of the methodology, it has been applied to two op-amp architectures.
Keywords
, CMOS, operational amplifiers, geometric programming, automatic design
@inproceedings{paperid:1009615,
author = {Maghami, Mohammad Hossein and Inanlou, Farzad and Lotfi, Reza},
title = {Simulation-Equation-Based Methodology for Design of CMOS Amplifiers Using Geometric Programming},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems},
year = {2008},
keywords = {CMOS; operational amplifiers; geometric programming; automatic design},
}
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Simulation-Equation-Based Methodology for Design of CMOS Amplifiers Using Geometric Programming
%A Maghami, Mohammad Hossein
%A Inanlou, Farzad
%A Lotfi, Reza
%J IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems
%D 2008
