Variation range based simplification for meaningful symbolic analysis of analog integrated circuits

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• 作者：Mohammad Shokouhifar ; Ali Jalali
• 关键词：Analog integrated circuits ; Symbolic analysis ; Simplification ; Range of variation ; Database
• 刊名：Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：90
• 期：2
• 页码：447-461
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Circuits and Systems; Electrical Engineering; Signal,Image and Speech Processing;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-1979
• 卷排序：90

文摘

This paper presents a variation range based symbolic simplification technique, where each circuit parameter is represented via a range of variation. We generate a database to handle the variation ranges of the circuit parameters and perform simulated annealing algorithm to achieve the most compact symbolic expressions. In contrast to the existing techniques, the main advantage of the proposed method is that the simplified symbolic expressions have an acceptable generalizability in the whole ranges of variations of the circuit parameters. The maximum allowable simplification error can be controlled by the user based on the required accuracy level that he needs. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the conventional techniques in terms of expression complexity, accuracy and generalizability of the simplified expressions. The resultant expressions are only as complicated as necessary to give the required accuracy in the results, which help in giving a better insight into the circuit behavior.