Variation-Aware Analog Structural Synthesis: A Computational Intelligence Approach

Experiment: Diversity? 7.9 Experiment: Human-Competitive Results? 7.10 Discussion: Comparison to Open-Ended Structural Synthesis. 7.11 Conclusion.8. KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION IN TOPOLOGY SYNTHESIS. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Generation of Database. 8.3 Extraction of Specs-To-Topology Decision Tree. 8.4 Global Nonlinear Sensitivity Analysis. 8.5 Extraction of Analytical Performance Tradeoffs. 8.6 Conclusion. 9. VARIATION-AWARE TOPOLOGY SYNTHESIS & KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Problem Specification. 9.3 Background. 9.4 Towards a Solution. 9.5 Proposed Approach: MOJITO-R. 9.6 MOJITO-R Experimental Validation. 9.7 Conclusion.10. NOVEL VARIATION-AWARE TOPOLOGY SYNTHESIS. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Background. 10.3 MOJITO-N Algorithm and Results. 10.4 ISCLEs Algorithm And Results. 10.5 Conclusion.11. CONCLUSION. 11.1 General Contributions. 11.2 Specific Contributions. 11.3 Future Work. 11.4 Final Remarks.References. Index.

University of California, Los Angeles. In 1989 he was appointed by the National Fund of Scientific Research (Belgium) as Research Associate, in 1992 as a Senior Research Associate and in 1996 as a Research Director at the Laboratory ESAT, K.U.Leuven. Between 1989 and 1996 he was also a part-time Associate Professor. He is now a Full Professor at the K.U.Leuven. His current research interests are in high-performance and high-frequency analog integrated circuits for telecommunication systems and analog signal processing. Prof.Steyaert received the 1990 and 2001 European Solid-State Circuits Conference Best Paper Award. He received the 1991 and the 2000 NFWO Alcatel-Bell-Telephone award for innovative work in integrated circuits for telecommunications. Prof.Steyaert received the 1995 and 1997 IEEE-ISSCC Evening Session Award, the 1999 IEEE Circuit and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award and is currently an IEEE-Fellow.

Georges Gielen received the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He currently is a Full Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation (modeling, simulation and symbolic analysis, analog synthesis, analog layout generation, analog and mixed-signal testing). He is coordinator or partner of several (industrial) research projects in this area, including several European projects (EU, MEDEA, ESA). He has authored or coauthored five books and more than 300 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He regularly is a member of the Program Committees of international conferences (DAC, ICCAD, ISCAS, DATE, CICC...), and served as General Chair of the DATE conference in 2006 and of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in 2007. He serves regularly as member of editorial boards of international journals (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Springer international journal on Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Elsevier Integration). He received the 1995 Best Paper Award in the John Wiley international journal on Circuit Theory and Applications, and was the 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy on Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering. He received the 2000 Alcatel Award from the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research for his innovative research in telecommunications, and won the DATE 2004 Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, served as elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits And Systems (CAS) society and as chairman of the IEEE Benelux CAS chapter. He served as the President of the IEEE Circuits And Systems (CAS) Society in 2005. He was elected DATE Fellow in 2007, and received the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Meritorious Service Award in 2007.