Circuit Design = Science + Art! Designers need a skilled "gut
feeling" about circuits and related analytical techniques, plus
creativity, to solve all problems and to adhere to the
specifications, the written and the unwritten ones. You must
anticipate a large number of influences, like temperature effects,
supply voltages changes, offset voltages, layout parasitics, and
numerous kinds of technology variations to end up with a circuit
that works. This is challenging for analog, custom-digital,
mixed-signal or RF circuits, and often researching new design
methods in relevant journals, conference proceedings and design
tools unfortunately gives the impression that just a "wild bunch"
of "advanced techniques" exist. On the other hand, state-of-the-art
tools nowadays indeed offer a good cockpit to steer the design
flow, which include clever statistical methods and optimization
techniques. Actually, this almost presents a second breakthrough,
like the introduction of circuit simulators 40 years ago! Users can
now conveniently analyze all the problems (discover, quantify,
verify), and even exploit them, for example for optimization
purposes. Most designers are caught up on everyday problems, so we
fit that "wild bunch" into a systematic approach for
variation-aware design, a designer's field guide and more. That is
where this book can help! Circuit Design: Anticipate, Analyze,
Exploit Variations starts with best-practise manual methods and
links them tightly to up-to-date automation algorithms. We provide
many tractable examples and explain key techniques you have to
know. We then enable you to select and setup suitable methods for
each design task - knowing their prerequisites, advantages and, as
too often overlooked, their limitations as well. The good thing
with computers is that you yourself can often verify amazing things
with little effort, and you can use software not only to your
direct advantage in solving a specific problem, but also for
becoming a better skilled, more experienced engineer.
Unfortunately, EDA design environments are not good at all to learn
about advanced numerics. So with this book we also provide two apps
for learning about statistic and optimization directly with
circuit-related examples, and in real-time so without the long
simulation times. This helps to develop a healthy statistical gut
feeling for circuit design. The book is written for engineers,
students in engineering and CAD / methodology experts. Readers
should have some background in standard design techniques like
entering a design in a schematic capture and simulating it, and
also know about major technology aspects.
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