Performance estimator for an analog design automation system using EKV-modeled analog circuits

Deniz E., DÜNDAR G.

2005 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, Cork, İrlanda, 28 Ağustos - 02 Eylül 2005, cilt.2, ss.119-122, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 2
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/ecctd.2005.1523007
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Cork
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İrlanda
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.119-122
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Design automation is an attractive solution for improving efficiency and productivity in the analog domain. This paper describes a novel method for designing a performance estimator (PE) tool to increase the speed of an analog design automation flow presented in [1]. The method is based on using the analytical equations of the EKV transistor model to estimate the behavior of some basic analog blocks and later on utilizing the block estimations to arrive at the final circuit performance estimation. Finally, we apply the PE to various basic analog blocks and circuits to observe the effectiveness of the method.