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A memetic approach to the automatic design of high-performance analog integrated circuits

<01> Black-box optimisation algorithms are the fundamentals of analogue integrated circuit automated sizing research, which play a vital role from simple amplifier sizing to complex process variation-aware sizing. Thus, optimisation methods for high-performance analogue IC sizing are essential in this field, especially as design specifications are increasingly stringent. This paper presents a sizing method based on hybrid evolutionary computation. Experiments showed that some complex and tightly constrained analogue IC sizing benchmark problems can be solved without difficulty by this approach. Hence, this approach was utilised and revised by a number of works in analogue IC design and design automation area