HECTOR: a hierarchical topology-construction program for analog circuits based on a declarative approach to circuit modeling

The program HECTOR is presented. Its main goal is to construct a circuit topology for a specific analog function using library descriptions of commonly used basic building blocks. Of particular interest is HECTOR's construction strategy, which is hierarchical, interactive, and expert-system-assisted. Equally important is HECTOR's declarative and context-independent approach to describing building blocks in the library. This last aspect of HECTOR contributes new ideas to current developments in analog hardware description languages (AHDLs). A prototype version of HECTOR has been implemented on a TI Explorer II.<
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