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A Hierarchical Performance Equation Library for Basic Op-Amp Design

Systems and Control 2021-08-11 v2 Systems and Control

Abstract

The paper presents a new approach to automate the set-up of the design equations of the manual analog design process. Its main contribution is a comprehensive hierarchical performance equation library (HPEL) for op-amps. The HPEL makes the set-up of design equations independent of the topology. Based on the library and the functional block recognition method in [1], analytical performance models for various op-amp topologies are automatically instantiated. The method is currently designed for basic op-amps. In this paper, we use the method to size different op-amp topologies. Experimental results featuring four circuits are presented. The HPEL has also been integrated into a structural synthesis method featuring several thousand op-amp topologies [2].

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@article{arxiv.2012.09088,
  title  = {A Hierarchical Performance Equation Library for Basic Op-Amp Design},
  author = {Inga Abel and Maximilian Neuner and Helmut Graeb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09088},
  year   = {2021}
}

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