Intelligent Systems for Analog Circuit Design Automation: A Survey

摘要

Analog circuits play an important role in modern electronic systems, since they are irreplaceable for interfacing with the external, analog world. More and more new products also rely on analog circuitry to improve speed and decrease power consumption. Even though analog circuit design automation began four decades ago it is still in its infancy compared to digital design automation. Given the challenges of analog design problems and the shortages of analog design engineers, there are strong, renewed economic pressures to develop new techniques for automating the analog design process. Many of these techniques have been based on intelligent systems, such as simulated annealing, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary computation. This paper gives an overview of intelligent systems techniques for analog circuit design automation and discusses the possible future research work.