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Foundations of Design Flows for Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems

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High-Level Modeling and Synthesis of Analog Integrated Systems

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As electronic systems tend to offer more functionality and consume less power, the design complexity continuously increases. As a result, design automation is an indispensable aid to deliver first-time-right and optimized designs in a time-to-market as short as possible. Successful development of EDA tools starts with the definition of a systematic methodology. Whereas for digital systems systematic high-level synthesis is commonly employed, analog synthesis is more ad hoc, especially at higher abstraction levels. This chapter first describes the kind of analog and mixed-signal systems targeted in this work. Then, the fundamental properties of design flows for these systems are summarized. Finally, a general methodology for high-level analog and mixed-signal synthesis is presented which provides a framework for developing analog EDA tools.

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(2008). Foundations of Design Flows for Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems. In: High-Level Modeling and Synthesis of Analog Integrated Systems. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6802-7_2

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