@inproceedings{d411448fd8f945fa84d4f1ac1b8c42c0,
title = "Duplex: Simultaneous parameter-performance exploration for optimizing analog circuits",
abstract = "We present Duplex random tree search, an algorithm to optimize performance metrics of analog and mixed signal circuits. Duplex determines the optimal design, the Pareto set and the sensitivity of circuit's performance metrics to its parameters. We demonstrate that Duplex is 5x faster than the state-of-the-art and finds the global optimum for a design whose previously published result was a local optimum. We show our algorithm's scalability by optimizing a system-level post-layout charged-pump PLL circuit.",
keywords = "circuit simulation, circuit synthesis, design space exploration, optimization, random tree search",
author = "Ahmadyan, {Seyed Nematollah} and Shobha Vasudevan",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCF 14-23431. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2016 ; Conference date: 07-11-2016 Through 10-11-2016",
year = "2016",
month = nov,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1145/2966986.2967026",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2016",
address = "United States",
}