Paper Info
Title
New mapping strategies for pre-optimized inductor sets in bottom-up RF IC sizing optimization
Abstract
This paper presents new indexing and mutation operators, in the context of bottom-up hierarchical multi-objective optimization of radio frequency integrated circuits, for pre-optimized sets of solutions from the hierarchical sub-levels when moving up in hierarchy. Two ideas, one based on a Voronoi decomposition and another based on the nearest neighborhood, are explored, where, and unlike previous approaches that are based on sorting, the distance between elements determines the probability of decisions taken during optimization. Three implementations of those ideas were tried in AIDA's NSGAII evolutionary kernel, and successfully used in the optimization of a Voltage Controlled Oscillator and a Low Noise Amplifier with pre-optimized inductor sets obtained using the SIDeO toolbox, showing their strengths when compared to previous state-of-the-art mapping strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/SMACD.2017.7981582
2017 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Analog IC Sizing Optimization,Hierarchical Bottom-Up Sizing,Multi-Objective IC Sizing Optimization
Kernel (linear algebra),Computer science,Phase noise,Algorithm,Inductor,Search engine indexing,Voltage-controlled oscillator,Electronic engineering,Radio frequency,Sorting,Voronoi diagram
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2575-4874
978-1-5090-5053-6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
12
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nuno C. Lourenço112218.24
Ricardo Martins217920.81
Ricardo Povoa35310.57
António Canelas47211.20
Nuno Cavaco Horta531049.65
Fábio Passos6197.41
R. Castro-López77918.20
Elisenda Roca812926.84
Francisco V. Fernández923440.82