Structure Synthesis of Analog Circuits (SAMS)

Automation of analog and mixed-signal (AMS) design has been received growing attention over the last few years. It addresses areas like behavioral specification, synthesis, mixed-signal simulation, Intellectual Property (IP), library development, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), System-on-Chip (SoC), etc.

AMS synthesis, which translates a design's behavioral description into a circuit-level or implementation-level representation is of critical importance. State-of-the-art in the AMS synthesizing is based on a top-down design flow of a abstraction hierarchy, with successive levels of refinement.

While there is no doubt that much progress has been made in this field, a fully automated, easy-to-use AMS design paradigm is still a challenge in research and development. This project sets therefore the goal of investigating the process for the structure synthesis of analog circuits, which is supposed to improve the design flow crucially.

The project focuses on the tasks listed below;

• Object-Oriented Method for Refinements of Signals;
  
• Verified Transformation Methodology for Behavioral Models;
  
• Fast Evaluation of Structure Variants;
  
• Structure Synthesis;
  
• Synthesis-Oriented Modeling on the circuit-level.