TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Leber, Florian
A1  - Scheible, Jürgen
T1  - A procedural approach to automate the manual design process in analog integrated circuit design
T2  - Analog 2018 : meet your CAD guy, meet your designer : Beiträge der 16. GMM/ITG-Fachtagung, 13.-14. September 2018 in München, Neubiberg. - (GMM-Fachbericht ; 91)
N2  - This paper presents a novel approach to automating the design of analog integrated circuits: (1) the Expert Design Plan (EDP), a procedural generator, and (2) the EDP Language, a high-level description language for writing an EDP. An EDP is a parameterizable, executable script, which reproduces a designer’s course of action when designing a circuit. Thus, an EDP formalizes the design expert’s knowledge-based strategy and makes it reusable. Since it is essential that an EDP represents a circuit designers’ way of thinking and working as close as possible, the designers themselves should be enabled to create the EDP. Therefore, our approach provides a input method through a domain-specific language called EDP Language (EDPL). Using this language is intuitive and requires no special training. In an exemplary implementation of our approach, a common-source amplifier is automatically sized using a set of only 10 instructions. Even in the first usage our EDP approach has appeared to be more efficient than the manual sizing process.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-8007-4754-2
SB  - 978-3-8007-4754-2
SP  - 175
EP  - 180
S1  - 6
PB  - VDE Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  -