Mixed-Signals Design Automation using the MIX-SYN Framework

This paper demonstrates how the MIX-SYN framework can fast-track the design of analogue and mixed-signals integrated circuits, traditionally designed using time-consuming techniques. By integrating different levels of design abstraction and their simulation environments, MIX-SYN aims to bridge the existing design discontinuity of transferring algorithm to functional design. It does not perform general analogue synthesis, but uses a mix of knowledge-based and analytic-based approaches to help the designer rapidly explore the design space and arrive at a circuit solution