Authors

Fanshu Jiao

Type

Text

Type

Dissertation

Advisor

Stanacevic, Milutin | Doboli, Alex | Salman, Emre | Milder, Peter | Li, Xin.

Date

2016-12-01

Keywords

Analog circuit design automation, Causal information modeling, Design knowledge mining, Design verification, Topology synthesis | Electrical engineering

Department

Department of Electrical Engineering

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77440

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

This thesis proposes novel approaches for analog circuit design knowledge mining and circuit causal information modeling. In particular, knowledge mining discovers and decomposes analog circuit design knowledge into three components: (1) a conceptual hierarchy for a group of circuit topologies, (2) circuits' performance capabilities (including trade-offs and bottlenecks), and (3) circuits' design causal reasoning strategies. Causal reasoning strategies lead to the development of reasoning-based topology synthesis and design verification, thus bring new perspective to existing approaches. Extended from performance capabilities, the thesis proposes circuit causal information modeling, which models relations of parameters deciding circuit performance attributes and coupling with other parameters. Different causal information measure reveals ordered parameter sequence and circuit sizing strategy. | 196 pages

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