Abstract
This paper presents a systematic methodology for the generation of high-level performance models for analog component blocks. The transistor sizes of the circuit-level implementations of the component blocks along with a set of geometry constraints applied over them define the sample space. A Halton sequence generator is used as a sampling algorithm. Performance data are generated by simulating each sampled circuit configuration through SPICE. Least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) is used as a regression function. Optimal values of the model hyper parameters are determined through a grid search-based technique and a genetic algorithm- (GA-) based technique. The high-level models of the individual component blocks are combined analytically to construct the high-level model of a complete system. The constructed performance models have been used to implement a GA-based high-level topology sizing process. The advantages of the present methodology are that the constructed models are accurate with respect to real circuit-level simulation results, fast to evaluate, and have a good generalization ability. In addition, the model construction time is low and the construction process does not require any detailed knowledge of circuit design. The entire methodology has been demonstrated with a set of numerical results.
Highlights
An analog high-level design process is defined as the translation of analog system-level specifications into a proper topology of component blocks, in which the specifications of all the component blocks are completely determined so that the overall system meets its desired specifications optimally [1,2,3]
These approaches involves the task of topology sizing, where the specification parameters of all the component blocks of a topology are determined such that the desired system specifications are optimally satisfied
We have developed the performance models using least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) as the regressor
Summary
An analog high-level design process is defined as the translation of analog system-level specifications into a proper topology of component blocks, in which the specifications of all the component blocks are completely determined so that the overall system meets its desired specifications optimally [1,2,3]. An analog high-level performance model is a function that estimates the performance of an analog component block when some high-level design parameters of the block are given as inputs [12, 13]. The important requirements for a good high-level performance model are as follows. The constructed performance models have been used to implement a high-level topology sizing process. The advantages of this methodology are that the constructed models are accurate with respect to real circuit-level simulation results, fast to evaluate and have a good generalization ability. The model construction time is low and the construction process does not require any detailed knowledge of circuit design.
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