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The first component necessary for a top-down design process is a well-defined behavioral description of the analog function. The behavioral characterization of an analog circuit is quite different from the characterization of a digital circuit; analog characterization is composed of not only the function that the circuit is to perform, but also the second-order non-idealities intrinsic to analog operation. In fact, errors in the design often stem from the non-ideal behavior of the analog section, not from the selection of the “wrong” functionality. To shorten the design cycle, it is essential that design problems be discovered as early as possible. For this reason, behavioral simulation is an essential component of any methodology. This simulation can help in selecting the correct architecture to implement the analog fuliction with bounds (constraints) on the amount of non-idealities that are allowable given a set of specifications at the system level.
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Chang, H. et al. (1997). Design Methodology. In: A Top-Down, Constraint-Driven Design Methodology for Analog Integrated Circuits. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8752-5_2
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