This paper proposes a GateRL that is an automated circuit design framework of CMOS logic gates based on reinforcement learning. Because there are constraints in the connection of circuit elements, the action masking scheme is employed. It also reduce...
Analog integrated circuit design is widely considered a time-consuming task due to the acute dependence of analog performance on the transistors’ and passives’ dimensions. An important research effort has been conducted in the past decade...
This study presents an automated circuit design approach using neural networks to optimize the dynamic range (DR) of active filters, illustrated through the design of a 7th-order Chebyshev low-pass filter. Traditional design methods rely heavily on d...
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Transistor-level Integrated Circuit (IC) design is fundamental to modern electronics, yet it remains one of the most expertise-intensive and time-consuming stages of chip development. As circuit complexity continues to rise, the need to automate this...
Quickly designing digital circuits that are both correct and efficient poses significant challenges. Electronics, especially those incorporating sequential logic circuits, are complex to design and test. While Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools...
The design of integrated circuits in the analog spectrum is intricate due to the signals’ continuous nature. Additionally, it is strongly affected by the physical implementation of their devices and interconnections on the layout, a design task...
A prototype RF probe card is assembled to test the feasibility of Pogo-pins as robust probe tips for the automized testing of multiple-port millimeter-wave circuits. A custom-made ceramic housing machined from a low-loss dielectric holds an array of...
Automatic techniques for analog integrated circuit layout design have been proposed in the literature for over four decades. However, as analog design moves into deep nanometer integration nodes, the increasing number of design rules, the influence o...
The layout design of analog integrated circuits has been defying all automation attempts, and it is still primarily a handcrafting process carried by circuit designers on traditional layout editing frameworks. This paper presents a toolbox based on d...
This paper presents a design automation method for optimizing parameters of radio-frequency front-ends, specifically aiming to maximize the overall performance of a receiver circuit. In this work, the design target includes a reduction in power consu...
Branch-line couplers (BLCs) are important components of wireless communication systems. Conventional BLCs are often characterized by large footprints which make miniaturization an important pre-requisite for their application in modern devices. State...
Power optimization is a very important and challenging step in the physical design flow, and it is a critical success factor of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip. Many techniques are used by the place and route (P&R) electron...
Analog integrated circuit sizing is notoriously difficult to automate due to its complexity and scale; thus, it continues to heavily rely on human expert knowledge. This work presents a machine learning-based design automation methodology comprising...
Efficient full-chip thermal simulation is among the most challenging problems facing the EDA industry today, especially for modern 3D integrated circuits, due to the huge linear systems resulting from thermal modeling approaches that require unreason...
An improved method based on a genetic algorithm (GA) is developed to design a broadband electrical impedance matching network for piezoelectric ultrasound transducer. A key feature of the new method is that it can optimize both the topology of the ma...
Design of Butler matrices dedicated to Internet of Things and 5th generation (5G) mobile systems—where small size and high performance are of primary concern—is a challenging task that often exceeds capabilities of conventional techniques...
Optimization is a crucial challenge across various domains, including finance, resource allocation, and mobility. Quantum computing has the potential to redefine the way we handle complex problems by reducing computational complexity and enhancing so...
A major challenge in model-based design of synthetic biochemical circuits is how to address uncertainty in the parameters. A circuit whose behavior is robust to variations in the parameters will have more chances to behave as predicted when implement...
While circuit parameter optimization has matured significantly, the systematic discovery of novel circuit topologies remains a bottleneck in analog design automation. This work presents SymXplorer, an open-source Python framework designed for automat...
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit (AMS-IC) designs remain a critical yet challenging aspect within electronic design automation (EDA), primarily due to the inherent complexity, nonlinear behavior, and increasing variability associated with a...
Analog mixed-signal (AMS) verification is one of the essential tasks in the development process of modern systems-on-chip (SoC). Most parts of the AMS verification flow are already automated, except for stimuli generation, which has been performed ma...
Microstrip filters are widely used in high-frequency circuit design for signal frequency selection. However, designing these filters often requires extensive trial and error to achieve the desired performance metrics, leading to significant time cost...
In integrated circuit (IC) design, analog circuits contribute significantly as the interface between real and digital world signals. Although they make up a relatively small portion of the overall circuit, their design process is often most time-cons...
The growth of digital communications has driven the development of numerous cryptographic methods for secure data transfer and storage. The SHA-256 algorithm is a cryptographic hash function widely used for validating data authenticity, identity, and...
Optimization algorithms have been successfully applied to the automatic design of analog integrated circuits. However, many of the existing solutions rely on expensive circuit simulations or use fully customized surrogate models for each particular c...
Layout stitching is a repetitive and tedious task of the radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design process. While academic research on layout splicing algorithms mainly focuses on analog and digital circuits, there is still a lack of well-deve...
A new methodology for the RF/mmWave analog design process, automation and acceleration, is presented in this work. The proposed framework was implemented so as to accelerate the design cycle of analog/RF circuits by creating a dataset in a fully auto...
In this study, we developed a complete flow for the design of monolithic 3D ICs. We have taken the register-transfer level netlist of a circuit as the input and synthesized it to construct the gate-level netlist. Next, we partitioned the circuit usin...
In this work, we propose a variation of the cellular particle swarm optimization algorithm with differential evolution hybridization (CPSO-DE) to include constrained optimization, named Ts-CPD. It is implemented as a kernel of electronic design autom...
The basic requirements for the design of a switchgear for main 35–220 kV step-down substations are reliability and efficiency. Switchgear circuits are chosen depending on the number of supply and transit lines and transformers, the substation&r...
This article presents a gamified digital twin in Minecraft designed to support practical exercises in digital logic in the Computer Engineering I course at the University of Salamanca. Implemented as a Spigot/Paper server plugin based on the Platform...
Researchers have proposed several designs and techniques to obtain sustainable development for industries for which growth will be escalated by automation in the future. Nowadays, automated soldering for printed circuit boards (PCBs) employs vision-b...
This paper presents a model-based and neural network-based innovative design of single-ended transistor resonant DC/AC converters with zero voltage switching (ZVS). A characteristic of the proposed design method is that the determination of the circu...
Researchers have proposed different methods for testing digital systems and circuits in the last couple of decades. The need for testing digital logic circuits has become more important than ever due to the growing complexity of such systems. During...
The design of analog computing systems requires significant human resources and domain expertise due to the lack of automation tools to enable these highly energy-efficient, high-performance computing nodes. This work presents the first automated too...
This paper deals with a standard cell-based analog-in-concept pW-power building block as a comparator and a wake-up oscillator. Both topologies, traditionally conceived as an analog building block made by a custom process and supply voltage-dependent...
In the context of global sustainability goals and the integration of renewable energy sources, the efficient and reliable performance of medium- and high-voltage power equipment is critical. This paper presents a high-capacity testing system based on...
With the continuous advancement of electronic technology, the application of high-voltage integrated circuits is becoming increasingly prevalent in fields such as power systems, medical devices, and industrial automation. The reference circuit within...
With the rapid development of semiconductor technology, the reduction in device operating voltage and threshold voltage has made integrated circuits more susceptible to the effects of particle radiation. Moreover, as process sizes decrease, the impac...
Integrated 2D spiral inductors possess low inductance per unit area, which limits their application range. However, the state of investigation into the lumped-element parameter extraction method for integrated 3D in-chip multi-turn solenoid inductors...
This paper designs and fabricates a small-type permanent-magnet linear motor and driver for automation applications. It covers structural design, magnetic circuit analysis, control strategies, and hardware development. Magnetic circuit analysis softw...
When the memristor was fabricated for the first time, it launched an entirely new field of research. Many of the published papers regarding memristors are primarily theoretical and are based on computer simulations. Some recent papers analyze the mem...
At present, magnetic induction switches are widely used in industrial automation control and biological sensing systems. A core module composed of a magnetic sensing device and a signal conditioning circuit is designed and analyzed in this paper. Uti...
In this paper, multi-band bandstop filters (BSFs) based on mixed electric and magnetic coupling resonators are proposed. These proposed structures include a multimode resonator based on symmetrical open-circuit branches, including upper- and lower-br...
In this study, we adopt a geometallurgical analytical approach common in mineral processing in the characterization of samples of shredded waste printed circuit board (PCB) E-waste, originating from Europe. Conventionally, bulk chemical analysis prov...
As technology scales down, digital VLSI circuits are prone to many manufacturing defects. These defects may result in functional and delay-related circuit failures. The number of test escapes grows when technology is downscaled. Small delay defects (...
The design of analog circuits is a complex and repetitive process aimed at finding the best design variant. It is characterized by uncertainty and multivariate approaches. The designer has to make different choices to satisfy a predefined specificati...
This work proposes a methodology for the automated sizing of transistors in analog integrated circuits, based on a modular and hierarchical representation of the circuit. The methodology combines structured design techniques and systematic design flo...
Relay-based traffic control systems are still used in railway control systems. Their correctness is most often verified by manual analysis, which does not guarantee correctness in all conditions. Passenger safety, control reliability, and failure-fre...
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