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Time-Domain Generic Behavioral Models

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High-Level Modeling and Synthesis of Analog Integrated Systems

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Generic behavioral models describe the behavior of an entire class of analog or mixed-signal system instead of directly representing a particular architecture with specific non-idealities. This allows to widen the design space of architectures covered by the model while the common characteristics of the systems in the class can be exploited to yield time-efficient performance evaluation methods. To offer these properties, systems are described in an indirect way via generic functions and an interaction scheme. These elements are closely related to the evaluation method of the model via simulation: the interaction scheme expresses the dynamic relations between the generic functions. Time- and frequency-domain approaches are commonly used in analog design. Both can be adopted as intrinsic simulation scheme for the generic behavioral model. This chapter focuses on the time-domain techniques that are developed in this work whereas frequency-domain models are discussed in the next chapter.

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(2008). Time-Domain Generic Behavioral Models. In: High-Level Modeling and Synthesis of Analog Integrated Systems. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6802-7_4

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