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Record W3204115212 · doi:10.1109/tvlsi.2021.3109560

Analog Circuit Design Using Symbolic Math Toolboxes: Demonstrative Examples

2021· article· en· W3204115212 on OpenAlexafffund
Mohamed B. Elamien, Brent Maundy, Leonid Belostotski, Ahmed S. Elwakil

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicVLSI and FPGA Design Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersAlberta InnovatesNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsComputer scienceAnalogue electronicsElectronic engineeringElectronic circuitRepresentation (politics)Parasitic extractionCircuit designComputer engineeringAlgorithmEngineeringElectrical engineering

Abstract

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In this article, a synthesis methodology for analog circuit design is presented. This methodology utilizes symbolic math tools to systematically and exhaustively search for candidate analog circuits avoiding tedious manual work. The two-port network matrix representation of active devices, such as MOS transistors, paves the way for efficiently using advanced symbolic math toolboxes (e.g., in MAPLE or MATLAB) to automate the generation of new analog circuits and further investigate the effects of nonidealities and parasitics. Using this synthesis methodology new amplifiers, filters, and oscillators can be obtained starting from a predefined structure. This article aims to motivate and provide an overview of the current status of research in this area. In addition, two detailed design examples of a family of differential filters and a family of differential oscillators along with their simulations and measurement results are provided to illustrate and verify the synthesis methodology.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.963
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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