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Autori principali: Abel, Inga, Graeb, Helmut
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Pubblicazione: 2021
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07517
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author Abel, Inga
Graeb, Helmut
author_facet Abel, Inga
Graeb, Helmut
contents This paper presents a method to automatically synthesize the structure of an operational amplifier. It is positioned between approaches with fixed design plans and a small search space of structures and approaches with generic structural production rules and a large search space with technically impractical structures. The presented approach develops a hierarchical composition graph based on functional blocks that spans a search space of thousands of technically meaningful structure variants for single-output, fully-differential and complementary operational amplifiers. The search algorithm is a combined heuristic and enumerative process. The evaluation is based on circuit sizing with a library of behavioral equations of functional blocks. Formalizing the knowledge of functional blocks in op-amps for structural synthesis and sizing inherently reduces the search space and lessens the number of created topologies not fulfilling the specifications. Experimental results for the three op-amp classes are presented. An outlook how this method can be extended to multi-stage op-amps is given.
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spellingShingle FUBOCO: Structure Synthesis of Basic Op-Amps by FUnctional BlOck COmposition
Abel, Inga
Graeb, Helmut
Systems and Control
This paper presents a method to automatically synthesize the structure of an operational amplifier. It is positioned between approaches with fixed design plans and a small search space of structures and approaches with generic structural production rules and a large search space with technically impractical structures. The presented approach develops a hierarchical composition graph based on functional blocks that spans a search space of thousands of technically meaningful structure variants for single-output, fully-differential and complementary operational amplifiers. The search algorithm is a combined heuristic and enumerative process. The evaluation is based on circuit sizing with a library of behavioral equations of functional blocks. Formalizing the knowledge of functional blocks in op-amps for structural synthesis and sizing inherently reduces the search space and lessens the number of created topologies not fulfilling the specifications. Experimental results for the three op-amp classes are presented. An outlook how this method can be extended to multi-stage op-amps is given.
title FUBOCO: Structure Synthesis of Basic Op-Amps by FUnctional BlOck COmposition
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07517