analog circuits – TechConnect Briefs

Analog Design Tool based on the ACM model

Galup-Montoro C., Schneider M.C., dos Reis Machado C., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, BR

This paper presents MOSVIEW, a software tool for transistor-level analog design, which is based on the Advanced Compact MOSFET (ACM) model [1, 2], derived from physics. This tool allows rapid exploration of the design space. [...]

Pareto-Optimal Modeling for Efficient PLL Optimization

Tiwary S.K., Velu S., Rutenbar R.A., Mukherjee T., Carnegie Mellon University, US

Simulation-based synthesis tools for analog circuits [1,2] face a problem extending their sizing/biasing methodology to larger block-level designs such as phase lock loops or converters: the time to fully evaluate (i.e., to fully simulate) each [...]