New methods for simulation speed-up and test qualification with analog fault simulation

VR Devanathan, L Balasubramanian… - … Conference on VLSI …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With SOCs being increasingly designed for communication and embedded processing
applications, the content of analog, mixed-signal (AMS) and RF components in them has …

Investigations on the Optimal Support Vector Machine Classifiers for Predicting Design Feasibility in Analog Circuit Optimization

J Lee, J Kim - JSTS: Journal of Semiconductor Technology and …, 2015 - koreascience.kr
In simulation-based circuit optimization, many simulation runs may be wasted while
evaluating infeasible designs, ie the designs that do not meet the constraints. To avoid such …

Efficient Global Optimization of Analog Circuits Using Predictive Response Surface Models on Discretized Design Space

J Lee, J Kim - IEEE Design & Test, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analog circuit optimization is an important-yet-challenging problem, because accurately
evaluating circuit performance by transistor-level simulation within the optimization loop is …